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TITLE:
AlstraSoft Forum Pay Per Post Exchange "catid" SQL Injection
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28581

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28581/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
AlstraSoft Forum Pay Per Post Exchange 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/17273/

DESCRIPTION:
t0pP8uZz & xprog have reported a vulnerability in AlstraSoft Forum
Pay Per Post Exchange, which can be exploited by malicious people to
conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "catid" parameter in index.php (if "menu" is set
to "forum_catview") is not properly sanitised before being used in
SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by
injecting arbitrary SQL code.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised or
filter malicious characters and character sequences using a web
proxy.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
t0pP8uZz & xprog

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/4956

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