Multiple vulnerabilities were identified in Pearl Forums, which may be exploited by malicious users to conduct directory traversal and SQL injection attacks.

This first issue is due to an input validation error in the "index.php" script that does not properly filter a specially crafted "forumsId" and "topicId" parameters, which may be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks.

The second flaw is due to an input validation error in the "index.php" script when processing a specially crafted "mode" parameter, which may be exploited by remote attackers to disclose the contents of arbitrary files.

Affected Products

Pearl Forums version version 2.4 and prior

Solution

VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2426
http://www.vupen.com/exploits/20051112.wfdownloads.php

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Abducter

Changelog

2005-11-15 : Initial release

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