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CVE-2002-0287: Powie Pforum: SQL injection

CVE-2002-0287 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Powie Pforum. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

pforum 1.14 and earlier does not explicitly enable PHP magic quotes, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrator privileges via an SQL injection attack when the PHP server is not configured to use magic quotes by default.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

• Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
• Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
• Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
• Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
• Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
• Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

• Powie Pforum: up to and including 1.14

References

• http://www.powie.de/news/index.php
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101389284625019&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8203.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4114