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phpBB viewtopic.php Arbitrary Code Execution

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Disclosed
Nov 12, 2004
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits two arbitrary PHP code execution flaws in the
phpBB forum system. The problem is that the 'highlight' parameter
in the 'viewtopic.php' script is not verified properly and will
allow an attacker to inject arbitrary code via preg_replace().

This vulnerability was introduced in revision 3076, and finally
fixed in revision 5166. According to the "tags" within their tree,
this corresponds to versions 2.0.4 through 2.0.15 (inclusive).

Authors

valsmith [email protected]
hdm [email protected]
aushack [email protected]

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

References

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/phpbb_highlight
    msf exploit(phpbb_highlight) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(phpbb_highlight) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(phpbb_highlight) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(phpbb_highlight) > exploit
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