From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2006 - 02:02:04 CDT

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TITLE:
MD News "id" SQL Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19530

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19530/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
MD News 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/9192/

DESCRIPTION:
Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu has discovered a vulnerability in MD News, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection
attacks.

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

Note that there is no authentication required to access admin.php.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 1. Other versions may
also be affected.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://evuln.com/vulns/120/summary.html

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