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Piwigo SQL Injection Vulnerability

Sense of Security - Security Advisory - SOS-09-007 

Release Date.                  17-Aug-2009
Last Update.                   17-Aug-2009
Vendor Notification Date.      15-Jun-2009
Product.                       Piwigo
Platform.                      Independent
Affected versions.             2.0.0 (verified), possibly others
Severity Rating.               Medium
Impact.                        Manipulation of data
Attack Vector.                 Remote without authentication
Solution Status.               Upgrade to 2.0.3
CVE reference.                 Not yet assigned

Details.
Piwigo is a photo gallery application written in PHP. The 
application suffers from a SQL injection vulnerability in 
comments.php, as it fails to validate data supplied in the
'items_number' variable before being used in an SQL query.

SQL injection attacks can give an attacker access to backend
database contents, the ability to remotely execute system 
commands, or in some circumstances the means to take control 
of the operating system hosting the database.

Proof of Concept.
/piwigo-2.0.0/comments.php?items_number=1'"

Solution.
Upgrade to version 2.0.3.

Discovered by.
SOS Labs.

Telephone 1300 922 923.

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