CVE-2025-23113
Published: 10 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-23113 is a low-severity CSRF (CWE-352) vulnerability in Vanderbilt Redcap. Its CVSS base score is 3.4 (Low).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Account Access Removal (T1531); ranked at the 24.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SC-23 (Session Authenticity) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-23113 is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability affecting REDCap version 14.9.6. The issue arises in the "action=myprojects&logout=1" endpoint during the upload of a CSV file containing alert configurations. Specifically, an attacker can embed an HTML injection payload in the "alert-title" field of the CSV. Upon upload, the victim is redirected to a page displaying the uploaded data, where clicking the malicious alert-title triggers the unprotected logout functionality. This stems from the lack of CSRF protections on the logout mechanism, classified under CWE-352 with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 3.4 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N).
An unauthenticated attacker (PR:N) can exploit this by sending a crafted CSV file to a targeted REDCap user via email or other means. The attack requires network access (AV:N), high complexity (AC:H) due to payload crafting, and user interaction (UI:R), as the victim must upload the file and subsequently click the injected alert-title. Successful exploitation changes the scope (S:C) and results in low integrity impact (I:L), either forcibly logging out the victim by terminating their session or redirecting them to a phishing site, potentially enabling session hijacking or credential theft.
Mitigation details are available in the research advisory at https://github.com/ping-oui-no/Vulnerability-Research-CVESS/blob/main/RedCap/CVE_XXX/README.md. No official patches or vendor advisories were referenced in the provided information.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-3127
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in REDCap 14.9.6. It has an action=myprojects&logout=1 CSRF issue in the alert-title while performing an upload of a CSV file containing a list of alert configuration. An attacker can send the victim a CSV file containing…
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an HTML injection payload in the alert-title. Once the victim uploads the file, he automatically lands on a page to view the uploaded data. If the victim click on the alert-title value, it can trigger a logout request and terminates their session, or redirect to a phishing website. This vulnerability stems from the absence of CSRF protections on the logout functionality.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
CSRF on logout directly enables forced session termination (account access removal); phishing redirect is secondary and less direct.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
SC-23 requires session authenticity mechanisms like CSRF tokens to protect state-changing actions such as the unprotected logout endpoint from forged requests.
SI-10 enforces validation of information inputs like CSV alert-title fields to block malicious HTML injection payloads during upload.
SI-15 filters output of user-supplied data such as alert-title to prevent rendering of executable HTML links that trigger the CSRF logout.