AlphaUserPoints for Joomla "username2points" SQL Injection Vulnerability


Description   A vulnerability has been identified in AlphaUserPoints (component for Joomla), which could be exploited by attackers to manipulate and inject SQL queries. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the "frontend/assets/ajax/checkusername.php" script when processing the "username2points" parameter, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
AlphaUserPoints (component for Joomla) version 1.5.2 and prior
     
Solution  
     
CVE   CVE-2009-3342
     
References   http://milw0rm.com/exploits/9654
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data
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 - 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 - 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 - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing
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 - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data
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
Misc : Remote code execution prevention: 2 '|' characters found as a parameter of a script file
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DROP statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data
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 - 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 
2009-09-15 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote