MyBB Profile Blog Plugin SQL Injection and HTML Injection Vulnerabilities
20 Dec. 2012
Summary
The Profile Blog Plugin for MyBB is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability and an HTML-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input.
Credit:
The information has been provided by Zixem.
An attacker may leverage these issues to compromise the application, access or modify data, exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database, or execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may allow the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, control how the site is viewed, and launch other attacks.
An attacker can exploit these issues through a browser. The following example URI is available:
http://www.example.com/member.php??action=profile&uid=2&blogpage=1&edit=[VAILD_ID]'[SQLi]
