HexBrain

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

Impact

An attacker could cause a problem for the server

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