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MercuryBoard < 1.1.6 SQL Injection

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4510

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a SQL Injection attack

Description

The remote host is running MercuryBoard, a web-based Message board written in PHP. This version of MercuryBoard is vulnerable to a remote SQL Injection flaw. This version of MercuryBoard fails to sanitize user-supplied input to the 'login.php' script. An attacker, exploiting this flaw, would send a malformed HTTP query to the application. Successful exploitation would result in the attacker being able to read or write Confidential data. In addition, the attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code on the remote database server.

Solution

Apply the vendor patch

See Also

http://www.mercuryboard.com

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 4510

Family: CGI

Published: 8/18/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:U/RC:X

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mercuryboard:mercuryboard

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-6632

BID: 29280