MyBB < 1.1.4 SQL Injection

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 3663

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a SQL Injection attack.

Description

The remote host is running an older version of MyBulletinBoard. The vendor has released version 1.1.4 in order to fix a flaw. Specifically, this version of MyBB is vulnerable to a remote SQL injection flaw. An attacker exploiting this flaw would only need to be able to send a malformed HTTP query that contains SQL commands. Successful exploitation would result in the attacker executing arbitrary SQL commands on the backend database server.

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.1.4 or higher.

See Also

http://community.mybboard.net

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 3663

Family: CGI

Published: 6/22/2006

Updated: 3/6/2019

Reference Information

BID: 18602