Andy PHP Knowledgebase Multiple Remote SQL Injection Vulnerabilities


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Andy's PHP Knowledgebase (Aphpkb), which could be exploited by attackers to manipulate and inject SQL queries. These issues are caused by input validation errors in the "saa.php", "a_viewusers.php", "a_authordetails.php", "keysearch.php" and "pending.php" scripts when processing user-supplied parameters, which could be exploited to conduct SQL injection attacks.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Andy's PHP Knowledgebase (Aphpkb) versions prior to 0.95.3
     
Solution   Upgrade to Andy's PHP Knowledgebase (Aphpkb) version 0.95.3 : http://downloads.sourceforge.net/aphpkb/aphpkb-0.95.3.zip
     
CVE   CVE-2011-1555
CVE-2011-1546
     
References   http://aphpkb.blogspot.com/2011/03/this-release-includes-security-fixes.html
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CAST statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DECLARE statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DECLARE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CAST statement in data
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2011-03-29 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote