TITLE:
Akarru Social BookMarking Engine SQL Injection Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19112
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http://secunia.com/advisories/19112/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Manipulation of data
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Akarru Social BookMarking Engine 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/8567/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Akarru Social BookMarking
Engine, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL
injection attacks.
Input passed to the user name in users.php isn't properly sanitised
before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate
SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 0.4.3.4.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.4.3.4.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155783
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Ricardo Galli.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=398713&group_id=155783
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