Account Takeover Via Modifying Email ID — Codeigniter Framework Through 3.0.0

Vishal Bharad
2 min readMar 21, 2020

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Hello Members, I am Vishal Bharad. Works as Security Researcher and pursuing OSCP. Here I am Back with another Interesting blog on Full Account Takeover Via Modifying Email ID.

Vulnerable Product Codeigniter 3.0.0 (Authentication) Web Application Framework

Vulnerability Type — Insecure Permissions

Affected Component — Login page form.

Attack Type — Remote

Impact Escalation of Privileges — true

Here in Authentication Library there are many Simple, Fast and Lightweight auth codeigniter.

Feature:
-Add user
-Delete user
-Ban, Unban user
-Register new user sent to email token
-Forget password
-Role user level — Vulnerable Feature
-Edit user profile
-Gravatar user profile
-Recaptcha by Google
-And much more

Core Authentication Features

  • User Authentication (User Login)
  • Access Granted by Level / Role — Vulnerable Feature
  • Access Granted by Role Group — Vulnerable Feature
  • ACL for Finer Controlled Permissions
  • Limits Failed Login Attempts
  • Limits Login to a Single Device (Default)
  • Deny Access by IP (Requires Local Apache Configuration File)
  • Persistent Login (Remember Me) (Turned Off by Default)
  • Forgotten Password and Username Recovery

Tools Used for this Vulnerability:

  1. BurpSuite

Steps to Reproduce:

It Starts With Login Page which is as shown in Below Image.

Login Page
  1. There are two account abc@gmail.com and xyz@gmail.com.
  2. Attacker can log in with abc@gmail.com account and He got an page to select role of the user.
User Role After Login

3. while selecting role capture the request in Burp suite.

4. Now You got an Email ID to and User Role in Request.

Attackers Email ID with Response.

5. Change the Email id to victim mail id i.e xyz@gmail.com and forward the request.

Victim Email ID with Response.

6. Boom….. You can now able to login with an any victims account.

Thank You

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Vishal Bharad

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Vishal Bharad
Vishal Bharad

Written by Vishal Bharad

Penetration Tester, Bug Bounty Hunter, Security Researcher

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