CVE-2008-6741

published 2009-04-21

CVE-2008-6741: SQL injection vulnerability in Load.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands by setting…

Priority P3 41 high 7.5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C P I P A P

EXPLOIT

SQL injection vulnerability in Load.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands by setting the db_character_set parameter to a multibyte character set such as big5, which causes the addslashes PHP function to produce a "\" (backslash) sequence that does not quote the "'" (single quote) character, as demonstrated via a manlabels action to index.php.

Affected

10 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
simple_machines	simple_machines_forum	<= 1.1.4	—
simple_machines	simple_machines_forum	—	—
simple_machines	simple_machines_forum	—	—
simple_machines	simple_machines_forum	—	—
simple_machines	simple_machines_forum	—	—
simple_machines	simple_machines_forum	—	—
simple_machines	simple_machines_forum	—	—
simple_machines	simple_machines_forum	—	—
simple_machines	simple_machines_forum	—	—
simple_machines	simple_machines_forum	—	—

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