Contact | Site en Français               

 


 

Vulnerabilities & Threats

 
  VUPEN Security Advisories
  Linux Security Advisories

  Malware Advisories

  Security Research
  Threat Watch Blog
  Zero-Day Monitor
  Search Engine
  Mailing List & RSS
 
   

>> WP-Forum Plugin for WordPress "user" SQL Query Injection Vulnerability

Title : WP-Forum Plugin for WordPress "user" SQL Query Injection Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0235
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0388
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-01-22


Technical Description    Receive VUPEN Security alerts in a Text format  Receive VUPEN Security alerts in a PDF format  Receive VUPEN Security alerts in an XML format  Receive VUPEN Security notifications by SMS 

A vulnerability has been identified in WP-Forum (plugin for WordPress), which could be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the "forum_get_profile()" [forum-functions.php] function when processing the "user" parameter, which could be exploited by attackers to inject arbitrary SQL queries.

Affected Products

WP-Forum (plugin for WordPress) version 1.7.4 and prior

Solution

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

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0235
http://trew.icenetx.net/toolz/advisory-singapore-modern-template.txt

Credits

Vulnerability reported by websec Team.

ChangeLog

2008-01-22 : Initial release

Vulnerability Management

Subscribe to VUPEN VNS and receive real-time e-mail and SMS alerts when new advisories or patches relevant to your systems and network configurations are available.

Feedback

If you have additional information or corrections for this security advisory please submit them via our contact form.

 

Vulnerability Alerting

Free 14-Day Trial

 
  Latest News

 

  >> 2009-06-10

     

  VUPEN Security Research
  Discovered Critical Flaws
  in Adobe Acrobat and MS

  Office Word


  >> 2009-06-02

     

  VUPEN Security Research
  Discovered Critical Flaws
  in ACDSee Products


  >> 2009-05-22

     

  VUPEN Discovered Two
  Critical Vulnerabilities in
  Novell GroupWise 8 / 7


  >> 2009-05-12

     

  Microsoft Patched 14
  Office PowerPoint Flaws

 

  >> 2009-04-28

     

  Adobe Reader / Acrobat
  Vulnerabilities
Disclosed

 

 

More Informations    
    








Copyright 2003-2009 © VUPEN.COM - Privacy Policy