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TITLE:
PHPNews "user" and "password" SQL Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16148

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16148/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
PHPNews 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4313/

DESCRIPTION:
RST/GHC has discovered a vulnerability in PHPNews, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "user" and "password" parameters in "auth.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.

Successful exploitation requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is
disabled.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 1.2.6. Version 1.2.5
is reportedly also affected. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Set "magic_quotes_gpc" to "On".

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
RST/GHC

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