PT-2009-13: TinX CMS SQL Injection Vulnerability Affected SoftwareTinX CMS Versions 3.x prior to 3.5.1 Product Link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133415Severity RatingSeverity: High Impact: SQL Injection Attack Vector: Remote CVSS v2Base Score: 7.5 Temporal Score: 5.9 Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:P/RL:O/RC:C) CVE: CVE-2009-0825Software DescriptionTinX CMS is a content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images).Vulnerability DescriptionPositive Technologies Research Team has discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability in TinX CMS.SQL injection is an attack technique that can be used to extract, modify, add or delete information from database servers that are used by vulnerable web applications. SQL injection vulnerabilities are caused by an unsecured programming technique that allows client-supplied data to interfere with the syntax of SQL queries. SQL is a programming language that is used by applications to communicate with database systems.User input passed to the "id" parameter is not properly sanitized. This can allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the "id" parameter.Example: http://[server]/system/rss.php?id=1'SQL-codeSolutionUpdate to version 3.5.1.Disclosure Timeline04/03/2009 - Vendor is notified 04/03/2009 - Vendor response 04/03/2009 - Requested status update from vendor 05/03/2009 - Vendor releases fixed version and details 06/03/2009 - Public disclosureCreditsThis vulnerability was discovered by Dmitry Evteev (Positive Technologies Research Team) using professional network security scanner MaxPatrol.Referenceshttp://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2009-13 http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.aspComplete list of vulnerability reports published by Positive Technologies Research Team:http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/ http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp
