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.

*CVSS:

Base Score:	4.2
Access Vector:	Remote
Access Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	Required
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	Partial
Temporal Score:	3.7
Exploitability:	High
Remediation Level:	Official-Fix
Report Confidence:	Confirmed

Consequences:

Data Manipulation

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.

References:

• BugTraq Mailing List, Fri Sep 01 2006 - 15:34:20 CDT : Sql injection in SMF [Admin section].
• Simple Machines Web site: Simple Machines.
• 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

Platforms Affected:

• Simple Machines Simple Machines Forum 1.1 RC3

Reported:

Sep 01, 2006

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