WP-Forum plugin for Wordpress page_id index.php SQL injection
| wpforum-index-sql-injection (39800) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
The WP-Forum plugin for Wordpress is vulnerable to SQL injection. If "showprofile" is selected as the "formaction" setting and "page_id" is set to a page with the "<!--WPFORUM-->" tag, a remote attacker with knowledge of the database table prefix could send specially-crafted SQL statements to the index.php script using the user parameter, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 6 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 5.7 |
| Exploitability: | High |
| Remediation Level: | Unavailable |
| Report Confidence: | Uncorroborated |
Consequences:
Data Manipulation
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.
References:
- WordPress Web site: WP-Forum Plugin.
- BID-27362: WordPress Plugin WP-Forum SQL Injection Vulnerability
- CVE-2008-0388: SQL injection vulnerability in the WP-Forum 1.7.4 plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the user parameter in a showprofile action to the default URI.
- SA28567: WordPress WP-Forum Plugin "user" SQL Injection
- VUPEN/ADV-2008-0235: WP-Forum Plugin for WordPress user SQL Query Injection Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- WordPress WP-Forum plugin for WordPress 1.7.4
Reported:
Jan 19, 2008
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