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[SA32887] Star Articles "subcatid" and "artid" SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Nov 27 2008 - 13:24:04 CST


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TITLE:
Star Articles "subcatid" and "artid" SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32887

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32887/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Star Articles 5.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20610/

DESCRIPTION:
b3hz4d has reported some vulnerabilities in Star Articles, which can
be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "subcatid" parameter in article.list.php and to
the "artid" parameter in article.print.php, article.publisher.php,
article.comments.php and article.download.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:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
b3hz4d (Seyed Behzad Shaghasemi)

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/7240

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