From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Jun 23 2009 - 18:10:04 CDT

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TITLE:
MyBB "birthdayprivacy" SQL Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35517

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35517/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in MyBB, which can be exploited by
malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed via the "birthdayprivacy" parameter to
inc/datahandlers/user.php is not properly sanitised before being used
in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by
injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Successful exploitation requires a valid user account.

The vulnerability is reported in MyBB 1.4.x versions prior to 1.4.7.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4.7 or apply patches.
http://www.mybboard.net/downloads

Changed files:
http://mybboard.net/download/103

Manual patch instructions:
http://mybboard.net/download/104

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Jesse Labrocca.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
MyBB:
http://blog.mybboard.net/2009/06/15/mybb-147-released-security-update/

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