Moodle blog/edit.php SQL injection
| moodle-edit-sql-injection (29001) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Moodle is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements to the blog/edit.php script using the blogEntry parameter, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 7 |
| Access Vector: | Remote |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | Not Required |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 6.1 |
| Exploitability: | High |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Data Manipulation
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Moodle (1.62 or later), available fom the Moodle Web site. See References.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Sun Sep 17 2006 - 00:48:48 CDT : Sql injection in Moodle.
- Moodle Web site: A Free, Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning.
- Moodle Web site: Release Notes - MoodleDOcs - Moodle 1.6.2.
- BID-19995: Moodle Multiple Input Validation and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
- BID-20085: Moodle Edit.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability
- CVE-2006-4785: SQL injection vulnerability in blog/edit.php in Moodle 1.6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the format parameter as stored in the $blogEntry variable, which is not properly handled by the insert_record function, which calls _adodb_column_sql in the adodb layer (lib/adodb/adodb-lib.inc.php), which does not convert the data type to an int.
- SA21899: Moodle Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SECTRACK ID: 1016877: Moodle Input Validation Flaw in `/blog/edit.php` Lets Remote Users Inject SQL Commands
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-3591: Moodle Multiple Modules Cross Site Scripting and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
Platforms Affected:
- Moodle Moodle 1.6.1 and prior
Reported:
Sep 17, 2006
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