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Date: Tue Dec 23 2008 - 18:10:04 CST

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TITLE:
SolarCMS Forum Component "cat" SQL Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33269

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33269/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Forum 1.x (component for SolarCMS)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20859/

DESCRIPTION:
athos has discovered a vulnerability in the Forum component for
SolarCMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL
injection attacks.

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

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.0. Other versions may
also be affected.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
athos

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/7548

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