Description: EgiX has discovered two vulnerabilities in DeluxeBB, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system and by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
1) Input passed to the "sort" parameter in forums.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
2) Input passed in the URL to admincp.php is not properly sanitised before being stored in logs/cp.php. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires valid administrator credentials.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.2. Other versions may also be affected.
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