Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the XM-Memberstats module for Xoops, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "letter" and "sortby" parameters in xmmemberstats/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.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 2.0e. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by
Affected "sortby" parameter reported as cross-site scripting vulnerability in RMSOFT Gallery Script by t0fx.
Affected "letter" parameter reported by an anonymous person.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
t0fx:
http://www.xssing.com/index.php?x=3&y=12

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