Detections
Analytics
Simple Machines Forum < 1.0.7 Code Injection
low Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 3198
Synopsis
The remote host is vulnerable to a Script Injection attack.Description
The remote host is running the Simple Machines Forum (SMF), a web forum. This version of SMF is vulnerable to a remote code injection flaw. An attacker exploiting this flaw would be able to execute arbitrary PHP code on the target web server. In addition, the remote host is vulnerable to an HTML injection attack. An attacker exploiting this flaw would create a post that included malicious script code. The attacker would then wait for a vulnerable user to peruse the page. Successful exploitation would result in malicious code executing within the user browser.Solution
Upgrade to version 1.0.7 or higher.Plugin Details
Severity: Low
ID: 3198
Family: CGI
Published: 8/31/2005
Updated: 3/6/2019
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.2
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 3.7
Temporal Score: 3.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:simple_machines:simple_machines_forum
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2005-2817, CVE-2006-0896