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PHPStore Yahoo Answers "id" SQL Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA32717
Release Date: 2008-11-17
Last Update: 2008-12-17
Popularity: 778 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:PHPStore Yahoo Answers

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-5490


Description:
Snakespc has reported a vulnerability in PHPStore Yahoo Answers, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "id" parameter in index.php (when "cmd" is set to "4") is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Snakespc

Changelog:
2008-12-17: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/7131


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