VULNARCHIVE

GCVE-1988-2026-0193

Weak Password Complexity - elggv6.3.3

Description (en)

# Exploit Title: Elgg - Lack of Password Complexity
# Date: 1/2026
# Exploit Author: Andrey Stoykov
# Version: 6.3.3
# Tested on: Ubuntu 22.04
# Blog:
https://msecureltd.blogspot.com/2026/01/friday-fun-pentest-series-48-weak.html

// HTTP Request - Changing Password

POST /action/usersettings/save HTTP/1.1
Host: elgg.local
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:148.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/148.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.9
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 216
Origin: http://elgg.local
Sec-GPC: 1
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://elgg.local/settings/user/admin
Cookie: Elgg=5ivi0vt1g9jqu1sju70hfnm0mc
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Priority: u=0, i

__elgg_token=nIY_M_wh53bUxoHvuKO1YA&__elgg_ts=1769266299&username=admin&name=Admin+User&email_password=&email=
admin () example com
&current_password=[REDACTED]&password=Passw0rd%21&password2=Passw0rd%21&language=en&guid=46


// HTTP Response - Changing Password

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:52:07 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu)
Cache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, no-store, private
expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
pragma: no-cache
Location: http://elgg.local/settings/user/admin
Vary: User-Agent
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 394

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8" />
        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url='
http://elgg.local/settings/user/admin'"; />

        <title>Redirecting to http://elgg.local/settings/user/admin</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        Redirecting to <a href="http://elgg.local/settings/user/admin";>
http://elgg.local/settings/user/admin</a>.
    </body>
</html>


// HTTP Request - Changing Password - Following Redirect

GET /settings/user/admin HTTP/1.1
Host: elgg.local
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:148.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/148.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-GB,en;q=0.9
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Origin: http://elgg.local
Sec-GPC: 1
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://elgg.local/action/usersettings/save
Cookie: Elgg=5ivi0vt1g9jqu1sju70hfnm0mc
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Priority: u=0, i



// HTTP Response - Changing Password - Following Redirect

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:52:11 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu)
Cache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, no-store, private
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
pragma: no-cache
x-content-type-options: nosniff
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 27859

[...]
<div class="elgg-message elgg-message-success"><div class="elgg-inner"><div
class="elgg-body">Password changed</div></div></div>
[...]
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