Secunia Security Advisory - Omid has reported a vulnerability in Xoops, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
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TITLE:
Xoops "user_avatar" Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21643
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21643/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Manipulation of data
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Xoops 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/327/
DESCRIPTION:
Omid has reported a vulnerability in Xoops, which can be exploited by
malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed to the "user_avatar" parameter in edituser.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 reported in version 2.0.14. Prior versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.15.
http://www.xoops.org/modules/core/
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Omid
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.hackers.ir/advisories/xoops.html
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