Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been discovered in HLstatsX Community Edition, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
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TITLE:
HLstatsX Community Edition "award" SQL Injection Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38079
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38079/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in HLstatsX Community Edition,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection
attacks.
Input passed to the "award" parameter in hlstats.php (if "mode" is
set to "dailyawardinfo" and "game" is set to e.g. "tf" or "l4d") is
not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be
exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.6.5. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
bnc
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10850
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