paFAQ SQL injection
| pafaq-sql-injection (19371) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
paFAQ is vulnerable to SQL injection. By sending a specially-crafted URL request to the question.php, answer.php, search.php, or comment.php script containing SQL code, a remote attacker could obtain sensitive information and add, modify or delete data in the backend database.
Platforms Affected:
- PHP Arena, paFAQ Beta 4
Remedy:
No remedy available as of June 27, 2009.
Consequences:
Data Manipulation
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Thu Feb 17 2005 - 03:21:12 CST , paFAQ Beta4 Sql Injection at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-02/0269.html.
- paFAQ Web page, PHP Arena at http://www.phparena.net/scripts.php?script=pafaq.
- BID-12582: PaFaq SQL Injection Vulnerability
- CVE-2005-0475: SQL injection vulnerability in paFAQ Beta4, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL code via the (1) offset, (2) limit, (3) order, or (4) orderby parameter to question.php, (5) offset parameter to answer.php, (6) search_item parameter to search.php, (7) cat_id, (8) cid, or (9) id parameter to comment.php.
Reported:
Feb 17, 2005
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