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SQL injection vulnerability in Load.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands by setting the db_character_set parameter to a multibyte character set such as big5, which causes the addslashes PHP function to produce a "\" (backslash) sequence that does not quote the "'" (single quote) character, as demonstrated via a manlabels action to index.php

Published Apr 21, 2009

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in Load.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands by setting the db_character_set parameter to a multibyte character set such as big5, which causes the addslashes PHP function to produce a "\" (backslash) sequence that does not quote the "'" (single quote) character, as demonstrated via a manlabels action to index.php.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-89

SQL Injection

References (3)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Apr 21, 2009
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Apr 21, 2009
Link CVE-2008-6741
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2008-6741
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2008-6741