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

BID: 16841, 14706

Detections

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