Utopia News Pro news.php SQL injection
| utopianewspro-news-sql-injection (22555) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Utopia News Pro is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. If magic_quotes is disabled and register_globals is enabled, a remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request to the news.php script containing embedded SQL commands in the newsid parameter, which would allow the attacker to add, modify or delete data in the back-end database, and possibly execute arbitrary code on the system.
Platforms Affected:
- Utopia Software, Utopia News Pro 1.1.3
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Utopia News Pro (1.1.4 or later), available from the Utopia News Pro Web site. See References.
Consequences:
Data Manipulation
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Thu Oct 06 2005 - 21:15:57 CDT, Utopia News Pro 1.1.3 SQL Injection / cross site scripting at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-10/0084.html.
- Utopia News Pro Web site, Utopia Software - Utopia News Pro at http://www.utopiasoftware.net/newspro/index.php.
- BID-15028: Utopia News Pro SQL Injection Vulnerability
- CVE-2005-3201: SQL injection vulnerability in news.php for Utopia News Pro (UNP) 1.1.3, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled and register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL via the newsid parameter.
- OSVDB ID: 19942: Utopia News Pro news.php newsid Variable SQL Injection
- SA17115: Utopia News Pro Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection
- SECTRACK ID: 1015016: Utopia News Pro Input Validation Holes Permit SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
Reported:
Oct 06, 2005
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