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Makit News Poster "uid" SQL Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA23930
Release Date: 2007-01-26
Last Update: 2007-02-02
Popularity: 4,130 views

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

Software:Makit News Poster 3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-0600


Description:
ajann has discovered a vulnerability in Makit News Poster, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "uid" parameter in newsposter/include.asp is not properly sanitised before being used in an SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Provided and/or discovered by:
ajann

Changelog:
2007-02-02: Added CVE reference.


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