CVE-2023-34249 — benjjvi/PyBB is an open source bulletin board

benjjvi/PyBB is an open source bulletin board. Prior to commit dcaeccd37198ecd3e41ea766d1099354b60d69c2, benjjvi/PyBB is vulnerable to SQL Injection. This vulnerability has been fixed as of commit dcaeccd37198ecd3e41ea766d1099354b60d69c2. As a workaround, a user may be able to up

01What is this vulnerability?

benjjvi/PyBB is an open source bulletin board. Prior to commit dcaeccd37198ecd3e41ea766d1099354b60d69c2, benjjvi/PyBB is vulnerable to SQL Injection. This vulnerability has been fixed as of commit dcaeccd37198ecd3e41ea766d1099354b60d69c2. As a workaround, a user may be able to update the software manually to avoid this problem by sanitizing user queries to `BulletinDatabaseModule.py`.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
benjjvi	PyBB	< dcaeccd37198ecd3e41ea766d1099354b60d69c2

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-06-13T16:40:44.556Z
• Last modified: 2025-01-03T18:05:40.878Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/benjjvi/PyBB/security/advisories/GHSA-5qrx-fgxq-95gg
• github.com — https://github.com/benjjvi/PyBB/commit/dcaeccd37198ecd3e41ea766d1099354b60d69c2