module

vBulletin index.php/ajax/api/reputation/vote nodeid Parameter SQL Injection

Disclosed
Mar 25, 2013
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a SQL injection vulnerability found in vBulletin 5 that has
been used in the wild since March 2013. This module uses the sqli to extract the
web application's usernames and hashes. With the retrieved information tries to
log into the admin control panel in order to deploy the PHP payload. This module
has been tested successfully on VBulletin Version 5.0.0 Beta 13 over an Ubuntu
Linux distribution.

Authors

Orestis Kourides
juan vazquez [email protected]

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

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