Crafty Syntax Live Help Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	30825
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2008-3845
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Aug 25 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:24PM
Credit:	James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team
Vulnerable:	Crafty Syntax Live Help Crafty Syntax Live Help 2.4.16
Not Vulnerable:	Crafty Syntax Live Help Crafty Syntax Live Help 2.15

Crafty Syntax Live Help Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Crafty Syntax Live Help is prone to multiple SQL-injection vulnerabilities because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query.

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

Crafty Syntax Live Help 2.14.6 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Crafty Syntax Live Help Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Attackers can use a browser to exploit these issues.

The following example URI is available:

http://www.example.com/is_xmlhttp.php?scriptname=1&department=-99%20UNION%20SELECT%201,2,concat(username,char(58),password),4,5,6,7,8,9%20FROM%20livehelp_users/*

Crafty Syntax Live Help Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

Solution:
The vendor released an update. Please see the references for more information.

Crafty Syntax Live Help Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

References:

• Crafty Syntax Live Help Homepage (Crafty Syntax Live Help)
  
• SECURITY UPGRADE IMMEDIATELY (Craft Syntax Live Help)
  
• Crafty Syntax Live Help <= 2.14.6 SQL Injection (GulfTech Security Research )