Secunia Security Advisory - John Leitch has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in phpMyChat Plus, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks.
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TITLE:
phpMyChat Plus Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44325
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DESCRIPTION:
John Leitch has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in phpMyChat
Plus, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site scripting and SQL injection attacks.
1) Input passed via the "pmc_password" parameter to avatar.php is not
properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be
exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site.
2) Input passed via the "CookieUsername" and "CookieStatus" cookie
parameters to e.g. lurking.php is not properly sanitised in
lib/useronline.lib.php before being used in SQL queries. This can be
exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that
"magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.93. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
John Leitch, AutoSec Tools.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
AutoSec Tools:
http://www.autosectools.com/Advisory/phpMyChat-Plus-1.93-Reflected-Cross-site-Scripting-187
http://www.autosectools.com/Advisory/phpMyChat-Plus-1.93-Blind-SQL-Injection-188
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