Xt-News show_news.php SQL injection

xtnews-shownews-sql-injection (31147)

Medium Risk

Description:

Xt-News is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements to the show_news.php script using the id_news 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:	6.7
Exploitability:	High
Remediation Level:	Unavailable
Report Confidence:	Uncorroborated

Consequences:

Data Manipulation

Remedy:

No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.

References:

• BugTraq Mailing List, Thu Dec 21 2006 - 20:23:48 CST: Xt-News 0.1 : SQL Injection Vulnerability & XSS.
• DreaXTeam.net Web site: Xt-News.
• BID-21719: Xt-News Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities
• CVE-2006-6747: SQL injection vulnerability in show_news.php in Xt-News 0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id_news parameter.
• SA23456: Xt-News SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting
• VUPEN/ADV-2006-5145: Xt-News Multiple Parameter Handling SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Platforms Affected:

• Xt-News Xt-News 0.1

Reported:

Dec 21, 2006

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