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myBB 1.6.4 Backdoor Arbitrary Command Execution

Disclosed
Oct 6, 2011
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

myBB is a popular open source PHP forum software. Version 1.6.4 contained an
unauthorized backdoor, distributed as part of the vendor's source package.

Author

tdz

Platform

PHP

Architectures

php

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


msf > use exploit/unix/webapp/mybb_backdoor
msf exploit(mybb_backdoor) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(mybb_backdoor) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(mybb_backdoor) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(mybb_backdoor) > exploit

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