WebSPELL Search.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	16673
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Feb 15 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Feb 15 2006 10:42PM
Credit:	x128 is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	webSPELL webSPELL 4.1 webSPELL webSPELL 4.0
Not Vulnerable:

WebSPELL Search.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability


The webSPELL application 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 allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

An attacker can exploit this issue to bypass the authentication mechanism and gain access as an arbitrary user.

WebSPELL Search.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

WebSPELL Search.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released a fix to address this issue.


webSPELL webSPELL 4.0

• webSPELL SecurityFix 2006-02-15
  http://www.webspell.org/index.php?site=files&file=4

webSPELL webSPELL 4.1

• webSPELL SecurityFix 2006-02-15
  http://www.webspell.org/index.php?site=files&file=4

WebSPELL Search.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Vendor Home Page (webSPELL)
  
• webSPELL Securityfix (webSPELL)