Phorum Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

BID:23616

Info

Phorum Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 23616
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2007-2249
CVE-2007-2250
CVE-2007-2338
CVE-2007-2248
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 23 2007 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 06 2016 02:39PM
Credit: Janek Vind is credited with the discovery of these vulnerabilities.
Vulnerable: Phorum Phorum 5.1.20
Not Vulnerable: Phorum Phorum 5.1.22

Discussion

Phorum Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Phorum is prone to multiple input-validation vulnerabilities, including an unauthorized-access issue, privilege-escalation issue, multiple SQL-injection issues, and cross-site scripting issues, because the application fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input.

Exploiting these issues could allow an attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, compromise the application, access or modify sensitive data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

Phorum 5.1.20 is affected; prior versions may also be vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

Phorum Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

An attacker can use a browser to exploit any of these issues. For the cross-site scripting issue,
the attacker must entice an unsuspecting user to follow a malicious URI.

The following file contains proof-of-concept examples:

Solution / Fix

Phorum Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor has released version 5.1.22 to address these issues; please see the references for details.


Phorum Phorum 5.1.20

References

Phorum Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

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