CVE-2018-5975

published 2018-02-17

CVE-2018-5975: SQL Injection exists in the Smart Shoutbox 3.0.0 component for Joomla! via the shoutauthor parameter to the archive URI.

Priority P2 64 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

SQL Injection exists in the Smart Shoutbox 3.0.0 component for Joomla! via the shoutauthor parameter to the archive URI.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
thekrotek	smart_shoutbox	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

url http://localhost/[PATH]/component/smartshoutbox/archive?shoutauthor=[SQL]↗

path /component/smartshoutbox/archive↗

• → SQL injection via the `shoutauthor` GET parameter in the Smart Shoutbox component archive endpoint; monitor HTTP requests to /component/smartshoutbox/archive with anomalous or encoded values in the shoutauthor parameter. ↗
• → The exploit payload is Base64-encoded SQL injection delivered in the shoutauthor parameter; look for long Base64-like strings or URL-encoded SQL metacharacters (e.g. %27, %2f%2a) in that parameter. ↗

• · Affected version is specifically Smart Shoutbox 3.0.0 for Joomla!; the vulnerable component path is fixed at /component/smartshoutbox/archive. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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