Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in the Social Slider plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
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TITLE:
WordPress Social Slider Plugin "rA[]" SQL Injection Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45549
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-08-11
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the Social Slider plugin for
WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL
injection attacks.
Input passed to the "rA[]" POST parameter in social-slider-2/ajax.php
is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can
be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL
code.
The vulnerability is reported in version 5.6.5. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository or upgrade to version 6.0.0.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Miroslav Stampar
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Miroslav Stampar:
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17617/
Social Slider SVN:
http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/419869/social-slider-2/trunk/ajax.php
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