Secunia Security Advisory - David Sopas Ferreira has reported some vulnerabilities in ACG News, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
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TITLE:
ACG News Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26637
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26637/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Manipulation of data
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
ACG News 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/15556/
DESCRIPTION:
David Sopas Ferreira has reported some vulnerabilities in ACG News,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection
attacks.
Input passed to the "aid" and "catid" parameters in index.php and
"aid" in printable.php is not properly sanitised before being used in
SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by
injecting arbitrary SQL code.
The vulnerabilities are reported 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:
David Sopas Ferreira a.k.a. SmOk3
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://14house.blogspot.com/2007/08/acg-news-sql-injection.html
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