Weblate · Report #481654
No Rate On Add Suggest
Validstatus
lowseverity
11upvotes
22 Jan 2019disclosed
How it was found
Hello
Description :
I have found that there is no limit in the number of requests in place of adding suggest, which may exploit the vulnerability of the attacker to send a large number of suggestions, for example, send a million suggest may lead to cause a problem to the server
Steps To Reproduce :
####1. Go To https://hosted.weblate.org/translate/andors-trail/game-content/ar/?checksum=c4ddb61773f5e641#suggestions add And Fill in fields ####2.Click On Add ####3.And intercept The Request With Proxy ( Burp ) ####4.And Send The Request To Inturder ####5.And Go to Payloads and Select In The Payload type > Numbers ... ####6.Click On Start Attack
POC :
{F408287} {F408288}
Remediation :
####1. limit the functionality to x attempts in a predefined period before blocking the account ####2. set up a captcha to prevent robots