Secunia Security Advisory - Virangar Security has discovered a vulnerability in PowerNews, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
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TITLE:
PowerNews "newsid" SQL Injection Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33363
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33363/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Manipulation of data
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
PowerNews 2.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/17521/
DESCRIPTION:
Virangar Security has discovered a vulnerability in PowerNews, which
can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection
attacks.
Input passed via the "newsid" parameter in news.php is not properly
sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to
manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that
"magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.
This vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.5.4. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Virangar Security
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/7641
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