Secunia Security Advisory - Mousehack has discovered a vulnerability in News2Net, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
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TITLE:
News2Net "category" SQL Injection Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17396
VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Manipulation of data
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
News2Net 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/6027/
DESCRIPTION:
Mousehack has discovered a vulnerability in News2Net, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed to the "category" parameter in "index.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.
The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 3.0.0.0. Other
versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Mousehack
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