CVE-2024-7459: Warehouse Inventory System CSRF Vulnerability

CVE-2024-7459 Overview

CVE-2024-7459 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting OSWAPP Warehouse Inventory System versions 1.0 and 2.0. The flaw resides in the /edit_account.php script, which fails to validate the origin of state-changing requests. An attacker who can lure an authenticated user to a malicious page can force the victim's browser to submit unauthorized account modifications. The exploit has been publicly disclosed under VulDB identifier VDB-273552 and is classified under CWE-352. The vulnerability is exploitable remotely without authentication on the attacker side.

Critical Impact
Attackers can modify victim account details, including credentials, by tricking authenticated users into visiting attacker-controlled pages.

Affected Products

OSWAPP Warehouse Inventory System 1.0
OSWAPP Warehouse Inventory System 2.0
Vendor: siamonhasan

Discovery Timeline

2024-08-04 - CVE-2024-7459 published to the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
2026-06-17 - Last updated in NVD database

Technical Details for CVE-2024-7459

Vulnerability Analysis

The vulnerability stems from missing anti-CSRF protections on the /edit_account.php endpoint in OSWAPP Warehouse Inventory System. The application accepts authenticated POST requests to modify account attributes without validating a session-bound CSRF token or verifying the request origin via Origin or Referer headers. An attacker can host an HTML form or JavaScript snippet that auto-submits a forged request to the vulnerable endpoint. When an authenticated administrator or user visits the malicious page, the browser automatically attaches session cookies, and the server processes the forged request as legitimate.

The public proof-of-concept hosted on GitHub Gist demonstrates the attack flow. The vulnerability has an EPSS probability of approximately 0.351% (percentile 26.8), reflecting moderate exploitation likelihood.

Root Cause

The root cause is the absence of CSRF mitigations on /edit_account.php. The script does not generate or validate per-session synchronizer tokens, nor does it verify request headers that indicate same-origin submissions. Session authentication relies solely on browser-managed cookies, which the browser automatically sends with any cross-origin request.

Attack Vector

Exploitation requires no privileges on the attacker side and no direct interaction with the target server. The attacker crafts a malicious page containing a hidden form targeting /edit_account.php with attacker-controlled parameters such as updated email or password values. When a logged-in user visits the page, the browser issues an authenticated POST request, and the server executes the account change. The attacker can then use modified credentials to take over the account.

The vulnerability is described in the VulDB CTI Report #273552 and VulDB entry #273552. No verified code examples have been included here.

Detection Methods for CVE-2024-7459

Indicators of Compromise

Unexpected POST requests to /edit_account.php with Referer or Origin headers pointing to external domains
Account modification events that do not correlate with user-initiated UI navigation patterns
Sudden changes to email, password, or profile fields followed by login from new IP addresses
HTTP requests to /edit_account.php lacking any anti-CSRF token parameter

Detection Strategies

Inspect web server access logs for cross-origin POST requests targeting account management endpoints
Configure a Web Application Firewall (WAF) rule to flag state-changing requests missing valid CSRF tokens
Correlate account modification events with preceding navigation events in user session telemetry

Monitoring Recommendations

Forward web server and application logs to a centralized SIEM for correlation against authentication events
Alert on account credential changes that occur within seconds of an external Referer header
Monitor for repeated requests to /edit_account.php from the same client across different user sessions

How to Mitigate CVE-2024-7459

Immediate Actions Required

Restrict access to OSWAPP Warehouse Inventory System administrative interfaces to trusted networks or VPN-only access
Force a password reset for all accounts and audit recent account modifications for unauthorized changes
Deploy a WAF rule to block POST requests to /edit_account.php that lack valid Referer or Origin headers matching the application domain

Patch Information

No vendor patch is currently referenced in the NVD entry for CVE-2024-7459. Administrators should monitor the siamonhasan project repository for updates. Until an official fix is released, apply the workarounds below and consider migrating to a maintained inventory management platform.

Workarounds

Implement a reverse proxy that injects and validates CSRF tokens on /edit_account.php requests
Configure session cookies with the SameSite=Strict attribute to prevent cross-site cookie transmission
Add server-side validation comparing the Origin header against the expected application hostname and rejecting mismatches
Educate users to log out of the application before browsing untrusted sites

bash

# Example nginx configuration to enforce same-origin on state-changing endpoints
location = /edit_account.php {
    if ($request_method = POST) {
        set $valid_origin 0;
        if ($http_origin = "https://warehouse.example.com") {
            set $valid_origin 1;
        }
        if ($valid_origin = 0) {
            return 403;
        }
    }
    proxy_pass http://backend;
}