A vulnerability was discovered by Aung Khant that allows for exploitable SQL Injection attacks against a Joomla 1.6.0 install. This exploit attempts to leverage the SQL Injection to extract admin credentials, and then store those credentials within the notes_db. The vulnerability is due to a validation issue in /components/com_content/models/category.php that erroneously uses the "string" type whenever filtering the user supplied input. This issue was fixed by performing a whitelist check of the user supplied order data against the allowed order types, and also escaping the input.
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