Secunia Security Advisory - Cr@zy_King has discovered a vulnerability in Metyus Forum Portal, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
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TITLE:
Metyus Forum Portal "forumid" SQL Injection
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26253
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26253/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Manipulation of data
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Metyus Forum Portal 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/15088/
DESCRIPTION:
Cr@zy_King has discovered a vulnerability in Metyus Forum Portal,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection
attacks.
Input passed to the "forumid" parameter in philboard_forum.asp is not
properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be
exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.0. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Cr@zy_King
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/0707-exploits/metyus-sql.txt
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