(PT-2009-13) Positive Technologies Security Advisory
TinX CMS SQL Injection vulnerability
Affected Software
TinX CMS
Versions 3.x prior to 3.5.1
Product Link:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133415
Severity Rating
Severity: High
Impact: SQL Injection
Attack Vector: Remote
CVSS v2
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:P/RL:O/RC:C)
CVE: CVE-2009-0825
Software Description
TinX CMS is a content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images).
Vulnerability Description
Positive Technologies Research Team has discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability in TinX CMS.
SQL injection is an attack technique that can be used to extract, modify, add or delete information from database servers that are used by vulnerable web applications. SQL injection vulnerabilities are caused by an unsecured programming technique that allows client-supplied data to interfere with the syntax of SQL queries. SQL is a programming language that is used by applications to communicate with database systems.
User input passed to the "id" parameter is not properly sanitized. This can allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the "id" parameter.
Example:
http://[server]/system/rss.php?id=1'SQL-code
Solution
Update to version 3.5.1.
Disclosure Timeline
04/03/2009 - Vendor is notified
04/03/2009 - Vendor response
04/03/2009 - Requested status update from vendor
05/03/2009 - Vendor releases fixed version and details
06/03/2009 - Public disclosure
Credits
This vulnerability was discovered by Dmitry Evteev (Positive Technologies Research Team) using professional network security scanner MaxPatrol.
References
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2009-13
http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp
Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Positive Technologies Research Team:
http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/
http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp
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