Vulnerability ID: HTB22653 Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/authentication_bypass_in_phpliteradmin.html Product: phpLiterAdmin Vendor: phpLiterAdmin ( http://code.google.com/p/phpliteradmin/ ) Vulnerable Version: 1.0 RC1 and probably prior versions Vendor Notification: 13 October 2010 Vulnerability Type: Authentication bypass Status: Fixed by Vendor Risk level: High Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA - Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing (http://www.htbridge.ch/) Vulnerability Details: phpLiterAdmin is affected by an authentication bypass vulnerability. This issue is due to the application failing to properly sanitize user-supplied input during authentication. Exploitation of this vulnerability would permit unauthorized access to any known account. Authentication can be bypassed by setting the special crafted cookies: phpLiterAdmin432=a:2:{s:8:"username"%3bs:5:"admin"%3bs:8:"password"%3bb:1%3b}; Solution: Upgrade to the most recent version