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SEO-Board admin.php SQL Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA16949
Release Date: 2005-09-26
Popularity: 7,747 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Manipulation of data
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:SEO-Board 1.x

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Description:
foster RST/GHC has reported a vulnerability in SEO-Board, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "user_pass_sha1" parameter in admin.php via the cookie is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Successful exploitation allows administrative logon.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.02. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 1.03.
http://seo-board.com/downloads.htm

Provided and/or discovered by:
foster RST/GHC

Original Advisory:
SEO-Board:
http://forums.seo-board.com/article280.htm


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