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Akarru Social BookMarking Engine SQL Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19112
Release Date: 2006-03-06
Last Update: 2006-03-14
Popularity: 5,088 views

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

Software:Akarru Social BookMarking Engine 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1051


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

Input passed to the user name in users.php isn't 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 versions prior to 0.4.3.4.

Solution:
Update to version 0.4.3.4.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155783

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Ricardo Galli.

Changelog:
2006-03-14: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showno...release_id=398713&group_id=155783


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