Article Script RSS.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	20929
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2006-5765
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Nov 06 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Jul 05 2007 09:57PM
Credit:	Liz0ziM is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Article Script Article Script 1.6.3
Not Vulnerable:

Article Script RSS.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

Article Script is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

Article Script 1.6.3 and prior versions are vulnerable to this issue.

Article Script RSS.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue via a web client.

The following proof-of-concept URI demonstrates this vulnerability:

http://www.example.com/articles/rss.php?category=-1/**/union/**/select/**/1,2,login,password/**/from/**/users/*

Article Script RSS.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 if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: mailto:[email protected].

Article Script RSS.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Vendor Home Page (Article Script)
  
• Article Script v1.*and v1.6.3 Sql injection ([email protected])