20524 : Phorum search.php forum_ids Parameter SQL Injection
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2005-11-04

Time to Exploit
3 days

Description

Phorum contains a flaw that may allow a remote attacker to carry out an SQL injection attack. The issue is due to the 'search.php' script not properly sanitizing user-supplied input to the 'forum_ids' variable. This may allow a remote attacker to inject or manipulate SQL queries in the back-end database.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Information Disclosure, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality, Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Public
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 5.0.21 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Brian Moon

Phorum

5.0.20

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 17456
CVE ID: 2005-3543 (see also: NVD)
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2005-2332
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-11/0063.html
Vendor URL: http://phorum.org/
Other Advisory URL: http://www.waraxe.us/advisory-43.html
Keyword: waraxe-2005-SA#043

Credit

Janek Vind "waraxe" - come2waraxeyahoo.com - Personal Page

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 7.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-11-16 | Disagree? | There are 1 more: View All

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