CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-6741

7.5 HIGH Published 2009-04-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-04-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-89

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in Load.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands by setting the db_character_set parameter to a multibyte character set such as big5, which causes the addslashes PHP function to produce a "\" (backslash) sequence that does not quote the "'" (single quote) character, as demonstrated via a manlabels action to index.php.

Affected configurations

• simple machines simple machines forum (<= 1.1.4) • simple machines simple machines forum 1.0.5 • simple machines simple machines forum 1.0.6 • simple machines simple machines forum 1.0.7 • simple machines simple machines forum 1.0.11 • simple machines simple machines forum 1.0.12 • simple machines simple machines forum 1.1 • simple machines simple machines forum 1.1.1 • simple machines simple machines forum 1.1.2 • simple machines simple machines forum 1.1.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command weakness

References