Vanilla Forums Parameter Name SQL Injection Vulnerability


Description   Michael Schratt has discovered a vulnerability in Vanilla Forums, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed via POST parameter names to vanilla/entry/signin and vanilla/entry/passwordrequest is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.0.18.4. Other versions may also be affected.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Vanilla Forums 2.x
     
Solution   Update to version 2.0.18.8.
     
CVE   CVE-2013-3527
     
References   Michael Schratt:
http://mfs-enterprise.com/wordpress/2013/04/05/vanilla-forums-2-0-18-sql-injection-insert-arbitrary-user-dump-usertable/
Vanilla Forums:
http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/23339/security-update-vanilla-2-0-18-7
https://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/commit/83078591bc4d263e77d2a2ca283100997755290d
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DECLARE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CAST statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DECLARE statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CAST statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data
5.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data
5.0.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2013-04-08 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Remote