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Stellar.org · Report #342977

brute force attack allowed on admin page https://www.stellar.org/wp-admin/

Informativestatus
mediumseverity
16upvotes
23 Feb 2020disclosed

How it was found

hi security team -due to your bug bounty program , i found basic authentication method -by doing many trials the server will response and will not block the logging process

  • the attack can be automated by burp intruder till getting access to admin page
  • in second screen the request is intercepted by burp proxy F290121:

-in third anf forth screen i used burp intruder to automate bruit force attack (i tried only 9 times to make POC) F290122: F290123:

Impact

if the attack coleted , admin page is accessed

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