vendor:
MFORUM
by:
CWH Underground
6.5
CVSS
MEDIUM
Arbitrary Add-Admin Vulnerability
264
CWE
Product Name: MFORUM
Affected Version From: 0.1a
Affected Version To: 0.1a
Patch Exists: NO
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: mforum
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
2008
MFORUM 0.1a Arbitrary Add-Admin Vulnerability
MFORUM 0.1a has Vulnerability to escalate user's privilege to administartor's privilege. That Vulnerable in 'Control Panel - Edit your profile' (http://[Target]/[mforum_path]/usercp.php?mode=edit_profile) and you can injection code into various field (City, Interest, Email, Icq, msn, Yahoo Messenger). This action will give your account can use Admin Control Panel (http://[Target]/[mforum_path]/admin/index.php) with Administrative's Privilege.
Mitigation:
Ensure that user input is properly validated and sanitized before being used in the application.