SQL injection vulnerability in Invision Power Board (IPB) 2.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a crafted cookie password hash (pass_hash) that modifies the internal $pid variable.

According to its banner, the version of Invision Power Board on the remote host suffers from multiple vulnerabilities :

  - SQL Injection Vulnerability     The application fails to sanitize user-input supplied     through the 'pass_hash' cookie in the 'sources/login.php'     script, which can be exploited to affect database     queries, potentially revealing sensitive information.

  - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities     An attacker can pass arbitrary HTML and script code     through the 'highlite' parameter of the     'sources/search.php' and 'sources/topics.php' scripts.

The remote host is running Invision Board, a CGI suite designed to set up a bulletin board system on the remote web server.  This version of Invision Board is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw where attackers can supply malicious script code to the 'act' parameter of the index.php script.  An attacker exploiting this flaw would need to be able to convince a user to browse to a malicious URI.  Successful exploitation would result in the theft of confidential materials (such as authentication cookies).  In addition, the remote application is vulnerable to a remote SQL Injection attack.  An attacker exploiting this flaw would send a malformed query to the application.  The query would include reserved SQL characters and syntax.  Successful exploitation would result in the loss of integrity and confidentiality.

The remote host is running Invision Power Board, a CGI suite designed to set up a bulletin board system on the remote web server.
A vulnerability has been discovered in the remote version of this software that may allow unauthorized users to inject SQL commands in the remote SQL database.
 An attacker may use this flaw to gain the control of the remote database and possibly to overwrite files on the remote host.

In addition, a remote HTML injection flaw has been identified within 
Invision Power Board.  An attacker exploiting this flaw would be
able to control the way that the website is presented.  In order to
exploit such a vulnerability, the attacker would need to be able to
convince a user to visit a malicious website.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
18203	Invision Power Board < 2.0.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS)	Nessus	CGI abuses	Remote	high
2879	Invision Board Multiple XSS and SQL Injection	Nessus Network Monitor	CGI		low
2422	Invision PowerBoard < 2.0.3 SQL Injection	Nessus Network Monitor	CGI		medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2005-1598

critical

Tenable Plugins

high

low

medium