SNS Vulnerability

MyBB Profile Albums Plugin SQL Injection Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in the Profile Albums plugin for MyBB, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed via the "album" parameter to albums.php (when "action" is set to "editimage" and "image" is set to a valid image id) 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 version 0.9. Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
Profile Albums 0.x (plugin for MyBB)

Solution

No official solution is currently available.

CVE

References

Th3FreakPony:
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/22003/

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

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2012-10-19

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote