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MercuryBoard User-Agent HTTP Header SQL Injection

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 3024

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a SQL Injection attack.

Description

The remote host is running MercuryBoard, a web-based message board written in PHP. This version of MercuryBoard is vulnerable to a remote SQL Injection flaw.
An attacker exploiting this flaw would send a malformed HTTP query to the application. Successful exploitation would result in the attacker being able to read or write confidential data. In addition, 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.securityfocus.com/archive/1/402929/30/0

http://www.mercuryboard.com

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 3024

Family: CGI

Published: 6/21/2005

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 18541

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mercuryboard:mercuryboard_message_board

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2028

BID: 14015