Downloads component for Mambo and Joomla! index.php SQL injection
| downloads-indexphp-sql-injection (40621) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
The Downloads component for Mambo and Joomla! is vulnerable to SQL injection. A remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements to the index.php script using the cat parameter, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.
Platforms Affected:
- Joomla!, Downloads component for Mambo and Joomla
Remedy:
No remedy available as of August 30, 2008.
Consequences:
Data Manipulation
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Wed Jul 20 2005 - 01:34:29 CDT, joomla SQL Injection (cat)(com_downloads) at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-02/0289.html.
- Joomla! Web site, Joomla! - Main at http://www.joomla.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/.
- Mambo Web site, Mamboserver.com - Home at http://mamboserver.com/.
- BID-27860: Joomla! and Mambo com_downloads Component 'cat' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability
- CVE-2008-0849: SQL injection vulnerability in index.php in the Downloads (com_downloads) component for Mambo and Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the cat parameter in a selectcat function, a different vector than CVE-2008-0652.
Reported:
Feb 16, 2008
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