Secunia Security Advisory - Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu has discovered a vulnerability in Newsadmin, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
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TITLE:
Newsadmin "nid" SQL Injection Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19972
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19972/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Manipulation of data
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Newsadmin 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/9765/
DESCRIPTION:
Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu has discovered a vulnerability in Newsadmin,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection
attacks.
Input passed to the "nid" parameter in readarticle.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 has been confirmed in version 1.1. Other versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://evuln.com/vulns/133/summary.html
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