Social Engine up to 2.80 code injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in Social Engine up to 2.80. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation results in code injection. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2008-3298. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Social Engine up to 2.80. Affected is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

SocialEngine (SE) before 2.83 grants certain write privileges for templates, which allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary PHP code.

The weakness was released 07/25/2008 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at socialengine.net. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2008-3298 since 07/25/2008. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The requirement for exploitation is a authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.

Upgrading to version 2.81 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (43959) and Secunia (SA31203†). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-43355. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Social Engine

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24
• 2.25
• 2.26
• 2.27
• 2.28
• 2.29
• 2.30
• 2.31
• 2.32
• 2.33
• 2.34
• 2.35
• 2.36
• 2.37
• 2.38
• 2.39
• 2.40
• 2.41
• 2.42
• 2.43
• 2.44
• 2.45
• 2.46
• 2.47
• 2.48
• 2.49
• 2.50
• 2.51
• 2.52
• 2.53
• 2.54
• 2.55
• 2.56
• 2.57
• 2.58
• 2.59
• 2.60
• 2.61
• 2.62
• 2.63
• 2.64
• 2.65
• 2.66
• 2.67
• 2.68
• 2.69
• 2.70
• 2.71
• 2.72
• 2.73
• 2.74
• 2.75
• 2.76
• 2.77
• 2.78
• 2.79
• 2.80

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