50072 : Simple Machines Forum (SMF) index.php theme_dir Parameter Traversal Local File Inclusion
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
12	1222	over 3 years ago	about 1 month ago	8 times	65%

Timeline

Exploit Publish Date	Disclosure Date
2008-11-05	2008-11-06

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2008-6659" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.0 before 1.0.15 and 1.1 before 1.1.7 allows remote authenticated users to configure arbitrary local files for execution via directory traversal sequences in the value of the theme_dir field during a jsoption action, related to Sources/QueryString.php and Sources/Themes.php, as demonstrated by a local .gif file in attachments/ with PHP code that was uploaded through a profile2 action to index.php.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Public, Exploit Commercial
Disclosure: Vendor Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.0.15, 1.1.7 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Simple Machines	Simple Machines Forum	1.0.15 (not affected)
		1.1.6
		1.1.7 (not affected)

References

CVE ID: 2008-6659 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 32139
Secunia Advisory ID: 32516
Related OSVDB ID: 50070
Milw0rm: 7011
Exploit Database: 7011
Generic Exploit URL: http://immunitysec.com
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=272861.0

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.5
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2009-04-07 | Disagree?

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