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Riddles Website "riddleid" SQL Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA30862
Release Date: 2008-06-27
Popularity: 2,163 views

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

Software:Riddles Website 1.x

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Description:
Cyb3r-1sT has discovered a vulnerability in Riddles Website, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "riddleid" parameter in riddle.php 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. retrieval of administrator usernames and passwords.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.2.1. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
Cyb3r-1sT

Original Advisory:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/5946


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