A vulnerability has been discovered in N-13 News, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.

The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without making proper validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to e.g. add an administrative user by tricking an administrator into visiting a malicious web site while being logged-in to the application.

This vulnerability is confirmed in versions 3.7 and 4.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update or upgrade to version 4.0.2.

Provided and/or discovered by
1) anT!-Tr0J4n

Additional information provided by Secunia Research.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16013/

HTB23005:
http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/multiple_xss_in_n_13_news.html

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