Retired: Invision Power Board Showtopic SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	16971
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Mar 06 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Mar 17 2006 10:20PM
Credit:	Mr.SNAKE is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.1.5 + Invision Power Services Invision Board 2.1
Not Vulnerable:

Retired: Invision Power Board Showtopic SQL Injection Vulnerability


Invision Power Board is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in an SQL query.

A successful exploit could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

NOTE: Further information indicates this issue is not a vulnerability; this BID is being retired.

Retired: Invision Power Board Showtopic SQL Injection Vulnerability


This issue can be exploited through a web client.

The following proof-of-concept URI is available:
http://www.example.com/index.php?showtopic=208510&pid=1366158&st=-1[sql]&#entry1366158

Retired: Invision Power Board Showtopic SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected]

Retired: Invision Power Board Showtopic SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Invision Board Homepage (Invision Power Services)
  
• Re: SQL injection in Invision Power Board v2.1.5 ([email protected])