PunBB Profile.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

BID:13071

Info

PunBB Profile.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 13071
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2005-1051
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 08 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 12 2009 12:56PM
Credit: The researcher responsible for discovering this issue is unknown at the moment.
Vulnerable: PunBB PunBB 1.2.4
PunBB PunBB 1.2.3
PunBB PunBB 1.2.2
PunBB PunBB 1.2.1
PunBB PunBB 1.1.5
PunBB PunBB 1.1.4
PunBB PunBB 1.1.3
PunBB PunBB 1.1.2
PunBB PunBB 1.1.1
PunBB PunBB 1.1
PunBB PunBB 1.0.1
PunBB PunBB 1.0 RC2
PunBB PunBB 1.0 RC1
PunBB PunBB 1.0 _beta3
PunBB PunBB 1.0 _beta2
PunBB PunBB 1.0 _beta1
PunBB PunBB 1.0 _alpha
PunBB PunBB 1.0
Not Vulnerable: PunBB PunBB 1.2.5

Discussion

PunBB Profile.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

PunBB is affected by a SQL injection vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input through the 'profile.php' script before using it in a SQL query.

This issue can be successfully exploited to gain administrative access to a vulnerable forum.

PunBB 1.2.4 and prior versions are vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

PunBB Profile.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

The following proof of concept allowing the attacker to gain administrative access was provided by Hardened-PHP Project:

Solution / Fix

PunBB Profile.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
This issue has been addressed in PunBB 1.2.5.


PunBB PunBB 1.0 RC1

PunBB PunBB 1.0

PunBB PunBB 1.0 _beta2

PunBB PunBB 1.0 RC2

PunBB PunBB 1.0 _beta3

PunBB PunBB 1.0 _alpha

PunBB PunBB 1.0 _beta1

PunBB PunBB 1.0.1

PunBB PunBB 1.1

PunBB PunBB 1.1.1

PunBB PunBB 1.1.2

PunBB PunBB 1.1.3

PunBB PunBB 1.1.4

PunBB PunBB 1.1.5

PunBB PunBB 1.2.1

PunBB PunBB 1.2.2

PunBB PunBB 1.2.3

PunBB PunBB 1.2.4

References

PunBB Profile.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

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