Info

Disclosure

Nov 29, 2005

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Nov 29, 2005

Solution

Unknown

Description

News contains a flaw that may allow an attacker to carry out an SQL injection attack. The issue is due to the index.php script not properly sanitizing user-supplied input to the 'id' variable. This may allow an attacker to inject or manipulate SQL queries in the back-end database.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Information Disclosure, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality, Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.2 or 1 (2005-11-30) or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. Note that this flaw was fixed in the 2005-11-30 release without a change in version number. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

N-13	News	1.2
		1

References

Bugtraq ID: 15643
Secunia Advisory ID: 17785
CVE ID: 2005-3930 (see also: NVD)
ISS X-Force ID: 23306
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-11/0359.html
Vendor URL: http://network-13.com/
Packet Storm: http://packetstormsecurity.org/0511-advisories/sa17785.txt

Credit

KingOfSka - ingofskagmail.com - Contro Potere Crew

Direct URL: http://osvdb.org/21247