Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in the mDigg component for Joomla, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
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TITLE:
Joomla mDigg Component "category" SQL Injection Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33306
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33306/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Manipulation of data
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
mDigg (component for Joomla)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/20869/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the mDigg component for Joomla,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection
attacks.
Input passed to the "category" parameter (if "option" is set to
"com_mdigg", "act" is set to "story_lists", and "task" is set to
"view") 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.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Zhigang Lei
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/7574
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