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Particle Wiki Script Insertion and SQL Injection
Secunia Advisory: SA20428
Release Date: 2006-06-05
Last Update: 2006-06-21
Popularity: 4,578 views

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

Software:Particle Wiki 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2861
CVE-2006-2966


Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in Particle Wiki, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks and SQL injection attacks.

1) Input passed to the "version" parameter in index.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

2) Input passed to the "page" parameter in index.php is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when malicious data is viewed.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that the user is running the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.

The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 1.0.2. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 1.0.3.
http://www.particlesoft.net/downloads.htm

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) r0t
2) luny

Changelog:
2006-06-07: Added additional vulnerability provided by luny.
2006-06-08: Added CVE reference.
2006-06-20: Updated "Description" and "Solution" sections.
2006-06-21: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://pridels.blogspot.com/2006/06/particle-wiki-sql-inj.html


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