CVE-2018-7176

HIGH

FrontAccounting 2.4.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via User Permissions Page

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2018-7176. PoCs published by Samrat Das.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This is a CSRF exploit for Front Accounting ERP 2.4.3 that creates a new admin user when an authenticated admin visits a crafted HTML page. The exploit leverages the lack of anti-CSRF tokens in the application.

Description

FrontAccounting 2.4.3 suffers from a CSRF flaw, which leads to adding a user account via admin/users.php (aka the "add user" feature of the User Permissions page).

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by Samrat Das · htmlwebappsphp
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44137

This is a CSRF exploit for Front Accounting ERP 2.4.3 that creates a new admin user when an authenticated admin visits a crafted HTML page. The exploit leverages the lack of anti-CSRF tokens in the application.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Auth Bypass
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Front Accounting ERP 2.4.3
Auth required
Prerequisites: Authenticated admin session · Victim must visit the crafted HTML page
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry exploit x_refsource_exploit-db
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44137/
Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://securitywarrior9.blogspot.in/2018/02/cross-site-request-forgery-front.html

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 39.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-352
Status published
Products (1)
frontaccounting/frontaccounting 2.4.3
Published Feb 16, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026