A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in phpBB Ajax Shoutbox up to 0.0.5 (Forum Software). This affects some unknown functionality of the file shoutbox.php. The manipulation of the argument phpbb_root_path with an unknown input leads to a file inclusion vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-73. The product allows user input to control or influence paths or file names that are used in filesystem operations. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in shoutbox.php in the Ajax Shoutbox 0.0.5 and earlier module for phpBB allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the phpbb_root_path parameter.

The weakness was shared 10/17/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-5312 since 10/17/2006. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details and a public exploit are known.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:shoutbox.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (29510).

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• Forum Software

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• phpBB

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• Ajax Shoutbox

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• 0.0.1
• 0.0.2
• 0.0.3
• 0.0.4
• 0.0.5

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• open-source

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