From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2008 - 17:24:05 CDT

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TITLE:
AvailScript Article Script "aIDS" Cross-Site Scripting and SQL
Injection

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31816

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31816/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Manipulation of data

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
AvailScript Article Script
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/19791/

DESCRIPTION:
sl4x.xuz has reported some vulnerabilities in AvailScript Article
Script, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks.

1) Input passed to the "aIDS" parameter in articles.php is not
properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be
exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site.

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

SOLUTION:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences using a proxy.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
sl4x.xuz

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/6409

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