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TITLE:
phpBB Personal Notes Module "p" SQL Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15154

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15154/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Personal Notes 1.x (module for phpBB)
http://secunia.com/product/5003/

DESCRIPTION:
James Bercegay has reported a vulnerability in the Personal Notes
module for phpBB, which can be exploited by malicious people to
conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "p" parameter in "posting_notes.php" isn't
properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be
exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
James Bercegay, GulfTech Security Research Team

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00070-04272005

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