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Active Newsletter "NewsPaperID" SQL Injection Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA24640  
Release Date: 2007-03-26
Last Update: 2007-04-02

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

Software:Active Newsletter 4.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-1696 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


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

Input passed to the "NewsPaperID" parameter in ViewNewspapers.asp is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Successful exploitation allows e.g. retrieving administrator passwords.

The vulnerability is reported in version 4.3. 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:
2007-04-02: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/3556



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