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TITLE:
FireStats SQL Injection and File Inclusion Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35400

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35400/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the FireStats plugin for
WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL
injection attacks or to compromise a vulnerable system.

1) Input passed via unspecified parameters is not properly sanitised
before being used in an SQL query. This can be exploited to
manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

2) Input passed via the "fs_javascript" parameter to
wp-content/plugins/firestats/firestats-wordpress.php is not properly
verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to
include arbitrary files from local or external resources.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.6.2-stable.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.6.2-stable.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Reported by the vendor.
2) darkmasking

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
FireStats:
http://firestats.cc/wiki/ChangeLog#a1.6.2-stable13062009

darkmasking:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/8945

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