From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Nov 22 2004 - 09:50:27 CST

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TITLE:
Invision Power Board ibProArcade "cat" SQL Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13260

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13260/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
ibProArcade 2.x (module for Invision Power Board)
http://secunia.com/product/4291/

DESCRIPTION:
Axl has reported a vulnerability in the ibProArcade module for
Invision Power Board, which can be exploited by malicious people to
conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "cat" parameter is not properly sanitised before
being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL
queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.51. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Axl

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