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AlstraSoft Forum Pay Per Post Exchange "catid" SQL Injection Vulnerability Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA28581  
Release Date: 2008-01-22
Last Update: 2008-02-04

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

Software:AlstraSoft Forum Pay Per Post Exchange 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-0429 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-0440 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
t0pP8uZz & xprog have reported a vulnerability in AlstraSoft Forum Pay Per Post Exchange, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "catid" parameter in index.php (if "menu" is set to "forum_catview") is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised or filter malicious characters and character sequences using a web proxy.

Provided and/or discovered by:
t0pP8uZz & xprog

Changelog:
2008-02-04: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/4956



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