Friday Fun Pentest Series - 42 - Current Password not Required when Changing Password - flatpressv1.4.1

Description

- It was noted that the application did not require the current password for the password change functionality

Current Password not Required when Changing Password #1:

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Login with admin user and visit "Main" > "Configuration" > "General Settings"
2. Current password would not be required when changing the password

// HTTP POST Request

POST /FlatPressc4hak4mvef/admin.php?p=config&action=default HTTP/1.1

Host: demos5.softaculous.com

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:144.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/144.0

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_wpnonce=c1d6797fb9&_wp_http_referer=%2FFlatPressc4hak4mvef%2Fadmin.php%3Fp%3Dconfig&admin=admin&password=&confirm_password=&title=FlatPress&subtitle=My+FlatPress+blog&blogfooter=&author=test&www=http%3A%2F%2Fdemos5.softaculous.com%2FFlatPressc4hak4mvef%2F&email=demos%40softaculous.com&notify=on&startpage=%3ANULL%3A&maxentries=5&timeoffset=0&dateformat=%25A%2C+%25B+%25e%2C+%25Y&dateformatshort=%25Y-%25m-%25d&timeformat=%25H%3A%25M%3A%25S&lang=en-us&charset=utf-8&save=Save+Changes

// HTTP Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 15:14:16 GMT

Server: FlatPress

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