TITLE:
Orca Forum "msg" SQL Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17721

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17721/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Orca Forum 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/6213/

DESCRIPTION:
r0t has discovered a vulnerability in Orca Forum, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "msg" parameter 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 4.3b. Other versions
may also be affected.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
r0t

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://pridels.blogspot.com/2005/11/orca-forum-43x-msg-sql-inj.html

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