SNS Vulnerability

SocialEngine "category_id" SQL Injection Vulnerability

Description

Snakespc has discovered a vulnerability in SocialEngine, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Input passed to the "category_id" parameter in blog.php (when "user" is set to a valid user name) is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that the blog plugin is enabled.
This vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.06 trial. Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
SocialEngine 3.x

Solution

Upgrade to version 4.2.2 or later.

CVE

CVE-2009-0400

References

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7900

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CREATE statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CAST statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DECLARE statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UNION SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SELECT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious INSERT statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DROP statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : block comment delimiters in URL	3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SQL statement in header	4.0.0

Risk level

Moderate

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2009-01-29

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote