Vulnerability Assessment & Network Security Forums

If through a vulnerability assessment, a network security issue is detected for the vulnerability below, applying the appropriate security patches in a timely matter is very important. If you have detected that your system has already been compromised, following CERT's Network Security recovery document will assist with recommended steps for system recovery.

Home >> Browse Vulnerability Assessment Database >> CGI abuses >> SimpGB Guestbook.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

Vulnerability Assessment Details

SimpGB Guestbook.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks for SQL injection in SimpGB

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is running SimpGB, a web-based guestbook application.

This version of SimpGB is vulnerable to a remote SQL injection flaw.
A possible hacker, exploiting this flaw, would only need to be able to send
a malformed query to the 'quote' parameter of the 'guestbook.php'
application.

A successful exploit would give the attacker the ability to read or
write confidential data as well as potentially execute arbitrary
commands on the remote web server.

Solution : Upgrade to version 1.35 or later.
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 12801

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Tenable Network Security

Cables, Connectors