Simple Machines Forum index.php SQL injection
| simplemachinesforum-index-sql-injection (37342) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Simple Machines Forum is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements to the index.php script using multiple parameters, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 7.5 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 6.5 |
| Exploitability: | High |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Data Manipulation
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Simple Machines Forum (1.1.4 or later) or (1.0.12 or later), available from the Simple Machines Forum Web site. See References.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Fri Oct 19 2007 - 19:33:37 CDT : Simple Machines Forum multiple sql injection flaws with exploit code.
- Simple Machines Community Forum/Simple Machines/News and Updates, September 23, 2007, 05:02:50 PM: Simple Machines Forum 1.1.4 and 1.0.12 released .
- Simple Machines Forum Web site: SMF Downloads.
- BID-26144: SMF Index.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability
- CVE-2007-5646: SQL injection vulnerability in Sources/Search.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.1.3, when MySQL 5 is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the userspec parameter in a search2 action to index.php.
- SA27346: Simple Machines Forum SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-3568: Simple Machines Forum Multiple Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- Simple Machines Simple Machines Forum prior to 1.0.12
- Simple Machines Simple Machines Forum prior to 1.1.4
Reported:
Oct 19, 2007
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