CVE-2012-4326
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in commonsettings.php in AlstraSoft Site Uptime Enterprise, possibly 5.4, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceA Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability exists in commonsettings.php of AlstraSoft Site Uptime Enterprise (possibly version 5.4). The script lacks proper anti-CSRF token validation, allowing remote attackers to forge administrative requests by tricking authenticated administrators into visiting malicious pages. This enables attackers to hijack administrator sessions and perform unauthorized configuration changes.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 5.4CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- M
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- Partial
- Integrity
- Partial
- Availability
- Partial
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify the installed AlstraSoft Site Uptime versionLocate and read the version information file or check the admin dashboard for the product version number. Compare your installed version against the affected range: version 5.4.Affected if The installed version is AlstraSoft Site Uptime Enterprise version 5.4.
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Locate the commonsettings.php fileSearch the web root directory for the file named commonsettings.php. Common paths may include /admin/, /include/, or the main application directory.Affected if The file commonsettings.php exists in the AlstraSoft installation.
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Inspect the form handling code in commonsettings.phpOpen commonsettings.php and examine any HTML forms that submit to this file. Look for hidden input fields containing anti-CSRF tokens (often named 'token', 'csrf_token', 'sid', or similar). Also check the PHP processing logic at the top of the file for token validation code (e.g., checking $_POST['token'] against a stored session value).Affected if The forms in commonsettings.php lack hidden anti-CSRF token fields AND the PHP processing code contains no token validation logic.
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Check for session token initializationSearch the file for functions that generate or validate tokens, such as checking for 'csrf_token', 'synchronizer', 'token_validate', or similar security token patterns in both form HTML and server-side PHP code.Affected if No anti-CSRF token generation or validation functions are present in commonsettings.php.
You are affected if you are running AlstraSoft Site Uptime Enterprise version 5.4 and the commonsettings.php file lacks anti-CSRF token validation in both its form definitions and server-side processing logic.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens (synchronizer token pattern) on all state-changing forms in commonsettings.php and validate these tokens on the server side before processing requests. Additionally, configure SameSite attributes on session cookies and consider implementing referer header validation as a secondary defense.
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