A vulnerability was found in Mark Girling MyShoutPro 1.2 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

MyShoutPro 1.2 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and gain administrative access by setting the admin_access cookie to 1.

The weakness was published 04/21/2009 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-6738 since 04/21/2009. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed by Stack and been published before and not just after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 308 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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 databases at X-Force (43145) and Exploit-DB (5845).

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• Mark Girling

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• MyShoutPro

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• 1.2

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