SNS Vulnerability

miniBB "code" SQL Injection Vulnerability

Description

Kacper Szurek has reported a vulnerability in MiniBB, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed via the "code" parameter to bb_func_unsub.php (when "action" is set to "unsubscribe") 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 reported in versions prior to 3.1 released on 2014-11-27.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
miniBB 3.x

Solution

Update to version 3.1 released on 2014-11-27.

CVE

CVE-2014-9254

References

MiniBB:
http://www.minibb.com/forums/news-9/blind-sql-injection-fix-6430.html
Kacper Szurek:
http://security.szurek.pl/minibb-31-blind-sql-injection.html

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CREATE statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CAST statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DECLARE statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UNION SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious INSERT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DROP statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : block comment delimiters in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SQL statement in header	4.0.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : Authentication bypass attempt with OR statement	5.0.0

Risk level

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2014-12-19

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote