TinX CMS 3.x SQL Injection Vulnerability

TinX CMS SQL Injection vulnerability

Affected Software

TinX CMS
Versions 3.x prior to 3.5.1

Product Link:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133415


Severity Rating

Severity: High
Impact: SQL Injection
Attack Vector: Remote

CVSS v2:
Base 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-2009-0825


Software Description

TinX 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 Description

Positive Technologies Research Team has discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability in TinX CMS.

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-code

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.


Solution

Update to version 3.5.1.


Disclosure Timeline

04/03/2009 - 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 disclosure


Credits

This vulnerability was discovered by Dmitriy Evteev (Positive Technologies Research Team) using professional network security scanner MaxPatrol.


References

http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/PT-2009-13
http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp

Complete list of vulnerability reports published by Positive Technologies Research Team:

http://en.securitylab.ru/lab/
http://www.ptsecurity.ru/advisory.asp