Woltlab Burning Board XSS / SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 2848

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to multiple attack vectors.

Description

The remote host is running Woltlab Burning Board, a web bulletin board written in PHP. This version of Burning Board is vulnerable to a remote Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack. An attacker exploiting this flaw would typically need to convince a user to browse to a malicious URI. Success exploitation would result in the theft of confidential materials (such as authentication cookies).

This version of Woltlab is also vulnerable to a remote SQL injection
attack. An attacker exploiting this flaw would send a malformed
'email' form query to the 'verify_email()' function. Succesful exploitation
would result in the attacker being able to read or write confidential
data. In some instances, the attacker may be able to execute arbitrary
code on the remote database server.

Solution

Upgrade or patch according to vendor recommendations.

See Also

http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00075-05162005

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 2848

Family: CGI

Published: 4/22/2005

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 18293, 18251

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.2

Temporal Score: 4.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:U/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:woltlab:burning_board

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1285, CVE-2005-1327, CVE-2005-1642

BID: 13325, 13353, 13568, 13643