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Title : Invision Power Board "name" Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2487
CVE ID : CVE-2008-4171
CWE ID : CWE-89
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-09-04

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A vulnerability has been identified in Invision Power Board (IP.Board), which could be exploited by attackers to manipulate and inject SQL queries. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the "xmlout.php" script when processing the "name" parameter, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks and gain knowledge of sensitive information.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by DarkFig.

ChangeLog

2008-09-04 : Initial release

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