SQL Injection in Bmforum

CVE-2008-6091

SQL injection vulnerability in plugins.php in BMForum 5.6, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the tagname parameter.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

Published 2009-02-09 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (58.4th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 58.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Bmforum — versions 5.6

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45611 (vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/31522 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6642 (exploit)