Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in KerviNet Forum, which could be exploited by attackers to manipulate or disclose certain data.

The first issue is caused by input validation errors in the "index.php" and "message.php" scripts when processing user-supplied parameters, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

The second vulnerability is caused by input validation errors in the "message.php" and "add_voting.php" scripts when processing user-supplied data, which could allow cross site scripting attacks.

The third issue is caused by an error in the "admin/edit_user.php" script when processing the "del_user_id" parameter, which could allow attackers to delete arbitrary user accounts.

The fourth weaknes is caused by errors in various scripts when accessed directly, which could allow the disclosure of the web path.

Affected Products

KerviNet Forum version 1.1 and prior

Solution

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

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1766

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by eLwaux.

ChangeLog

2009-07-03 : Initial release

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