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Xoops "user_avatar" Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA21643  
Release Date: 2006-08-28
Last Update: 2006-08-29

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

Software:Xoops 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-4417 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Omid has reported a vulnerability in Xoops, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "user_avatar" parameter in edituser.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 version 2.0.14. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 2.0.15.
http://www.xoops.org/modules/core/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Omid

Changelog:
2006-08-29: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.hackers.ir/advisories/xoops.html



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