A vulnerability was found in PBBoard up to 3.0.0 (Forum Software) and classified as critical. This issue affects the function CheckEmail. The manipulation of the argument email with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

SQL injection vulnerability in the CheckEmail function in includes/functions.class.php in PBBoard 3.0.1 before 20141128 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the email parameter in the register page to index.php. NOTE: the email parameter in the forget page vector is already covered by CVE-2012-4034.2.

The weakness was presented 12/05/2014 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at youtube.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-9215 since 12/02/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1505 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional.

Upgrading to version 3.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (35473). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• PBBoard

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• 3.0

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