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Secunia Advisory SA35517

MyBB "birthdayprivacy" SQL Injection Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA35517

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Release Date

2009-06-23

Last Update

2009-07-02

Popularity

2,598 views

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Manipulation of data

Where

From remote

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Software:

MyBB (formerly MyBulletinBoard) 1.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2009-2230 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in MyBB, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed via the "birthdayprivacy" parameter to inc/datahandlers/user.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Successful exploitation requires a valid user account.

The vulnerability is reported in MyBB 1.4.x versions prior to 1.4.7.

Solution
Update to version 1.4.7 or apply patches.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Jesse Labrocca.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
MyBB:
http://blog.mybboard.net/2009/06/15/mybb-147-released-security-update/

Deep Links
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