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Secunia Security Advisory 21643

Secunia Security Advisory 21643
Posted Aug 28, 2006
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - Omid has reported a vulnerability in Xoops, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

tags | advisory, sql injection
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Secunia Security Advisory 21643

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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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use those supplied by the vendor.

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