Phorum Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	18941
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jul 11 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Jul 18 2006 05:38PM
Credit:	Ellipsis Security is credited with the discovery of these vulnerabilities.
Vulnerable:	Phorum Phorum 5.1.14
Not Vulnerable:	Phorum Phorum 5.1.15

Phorum Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Phorum is prone to a cross-site scripting issue and an SQL-injection issue because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

A successful exploit of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, steal cookie-based authentication credentials, or even exploit vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation. Other attacks are also possible.

Vendor reports indicate that the SQL-injection issue can only result in error messages rather than arbitrary SQL statement execution.

Phorum Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Attackers can exploit these issues through a web client.

Phorum Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor has released version 5.1.15 to adress these issues. Please see the references for details.

Phorum Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

References:

• Phorum Homepage (Phorum)
  
• Phorum Security Advisory (Maurice Makaay )
  
• Phorum 5.1.14 XSS SQL injection Vulnerability (Maurice Makaay )