AVideo: CSRF in userSavePhoto.php Allows Cross-Origin Overwrite of Authenticated Users' Profile Photos with Arbitrary Content
Date: 2026-05
Affected: composer/wwbn/avideo
Attack vector: auth-bypass
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2026-43877
CWE: CWE-352
CVSS: 5.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)

## Summary `objects/userSavePhoto.php` is a legacy profile-photo endpoint that accepts a base64 POST parameter and writes the decoded bytes to `videos/userPhoto/photo<users_id>.png`. Its only access control is `User::isLogged()`. It does not end in `.json.php`, so it is excluded from the project's global `autoCSRFGuard` (which is suffix-scoped in `objects/include_config.php`). There is no CSRF token, no Origin/Referer check, and no MIME validation of the decoded bytes. Because AVideo's default cookie policy is `SameSite=None; Secure` on HTTPS (`objects/functionsPHP.php:227`), an attacker who lures a logged-in user to a malicious page can overwrite that user's profile photo with arbitrary bytes and also triggers a site-wide `clearCache(true)` on every forged request. ## Details Handler (`objects/userSavePhoto.php`, 51 lines total): ```php // line 12 - only access control if (!User::isLogged()) { $obj->msg = __("You must be logged"); die(json_encode($obj)); } // ... // line 29 - unvalidated base64 from POST $fileData = base64DataToImage($_POST['imgBase64']); // line 30 - deterministic filename tied to the VICTIM's session $fileName = 'photo'. User::getId().'.png'; $photoURL = $imagePath.$fileName; // line 35 - raw bytes written to disk $bytes = file_put_contents($global['systemRootPath'].$photoURL, $fileData); // lines 43-48 - DB update + global cache invalidation unconditionally $user = new User(User::getId()); $user->setPhotoURL($photoURL); if ($user->save()) {


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