Simple Machines Forum (SMF) ManageBoards.php SQL injection
| smf-manageboards-sql-injection (28716) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker with administrativer access to the application could send specially-crafted SQL statements to the ManageBoards.php script using the cur_cat parameter, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.
Platforms Affected:
- Simple Machines, Simple Machines Forum 1.1 RC3
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Simple Machines Forum (1.0.9 or later), available from the Simple Machines Forum Web site. See References.
Consequences:
Data Manipulation
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Fri Sep 01 2006 - 15:34:20 CDT , Sql injection in SMF [Admin section] at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-09/0009.html.
- Simple Machines Web site, Simple Machines at http://www.simplemachines.org/.
- BID-19814: SMF Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2006-4564: SQL injection vulnerability in Sources/ManageBoards.php in Simple Machines Forum 1.1 RC3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the cur_cat parameter.
- SA21740: Simple Machines Forum Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-3435: Simple Machines Forum cur_cat Parameter Handling Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability
Reported:
Sep 01, 2006
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