CVE-2008-6741: Simple Machines Forum

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Simple Machines Simple Machines Forum: up to and including 1.1.4; version 1.0.5 only; version 1.0.6 only; version 1.0.7 only; version 1.0.11 only; version 1.0.12 only; …

Published 2009-04-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.