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phpIncludes News System SQL Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA16351
Release Date: 2005-08-08
Popularity: 5,147 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:phpIncludes News System 1.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in phpIncludes, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "category" parameter in news_change_category.php is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.0.

Solution:
Update to version 1.1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.


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