PHPFreeNews Admin Login SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	14442
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Aug 01 2005 12:00AM
Updated:	Aug 01 2005 12:00AM
Credit:	rgod is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.32 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.31 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.30 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.22 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.21 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.20 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.19 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.18 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.17 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.16 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.15 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.14 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.13 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.12 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.11 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.9 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.8 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.7 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.5 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.4 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.2 PHPFreeNews PHPFreeNews 1.1
Not Vulnerable:

PHPFreeNews Admin Login SQL Injection Vulnerability

PHPFreeNews is prone to an SQL injection vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in an SQL query.

Successful exploitation could result in a compromise of the application, disclosure or modification of data, or may permit an attacker to exploit vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

PHPFreeNews Admin Login SQL Injection Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

An example has been provided:

login: Admin
password: ') or isnull(1/0) or ('a'='a

PHPFreeNews Admin Login SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

PHPFreeNews Admin Login SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Flex PHPNews 0.0.4 login bypass/ sql injection, cross site scripting & resource (rgod)
  
• PHPFreeNews Web Site (PHPFreeNews)
  
• rgod Website (rgod)