Pearl Forums Remote SQL Injection and Directory Traversal Issues


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities were identified in Pearl Forums, which may be exploited by malicious users to conduct directory traversal and SQL injection attacks.
This first issue is due to an input validation error in the "index.php" script that does not properly filter a specially crafted "forumsId" and "topicId" parameters, which may be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks.
The second flaw is due to an input validation error in the "index.php" script when processing a specially crafted "mode" parameter, which may be exploited by remote attackers to disclose the contents of arbitrary files.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Pearl Forums version version 2.4 and prior
     
Solution  
     
CVE   CVE-2005-4647
CVE-2005-4646
     
References   http://vns.frsirt.com/pvns/expl/20051112.wfdownloads.php
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CREATE statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in URL
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 - 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 - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing
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 - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data
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 - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2005-11-15 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote