Arab Portal 'X-Forwarded-for' Header SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	35149
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	May 29 2009 12:00AM
Updated:	Jun 01 2009 04:39PM
Credit:	RoMaNcYxHaCkEr
Vulnerable:	Arab Portal Arab Portal 2.2
Not Vulnerable:

Arab Portal 'X-Forwarded-for' Header SQL Injection Vulnerability

Arab Portal 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.

Arab Portal 2.2 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Arab Portal 'X-Forwarded-for' Header SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example input is available:

X-Forwarded-for: '/**/union/**/select/**/0/*

Arab Portal 'X-Forwarded-for' Header 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].

Arab Portal 'X-Forwarded-for' Header SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Arab Portal Homepage (Arab Portal)