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Preemptive Protection against SQL Injection Vulnerability in Subdreamer

Attack ID: CPAI-2005-52
Publish Date:
Category: SQL Injection
Vulnerable Systems: Subdreamer Light
Source:

SecuriTeam

Description: Subdreamer is a PHP-based content management system. Subdreamer is vulnerable to SQL injection attacks, caused by failure of the application to sanitize user-supplied input in several parameters. By sending a specially crafted request to a vulnerable system, a remote attacker could execute malicious SQL code on the backend SQL database, which may lead to data theft, gaining remote control of the server and more.
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Details:

Subdreamer does not properly validate user-supplied input in the core.php script. A remote attacker could supply a crafted request to the core.php script containing malicious SQL code to exeute arbitrary SQL queries. To trigger this vulnerability, magic_quotes_gpc should be disabled.

Attack Detection:

Users of VPN-1 NG with Application Intelligence R55W and Connectra that have enabled the solution outlined below, will identify SQL Injection attacks by the following entries (example only):

Attack name: SQL Injection
Information: reason: WSE0040001 SQL injection detected in URL: 'UNION'

Solution: Users of VPN-1 NG with Application Intelligence R55W with Web Intelligence license as well as users of Connectra who have applied the SQL Injection protection as advised in CPSA-2004-02 are preemptively protected against this vulnerability.

To verify that your SQL injection protection is enabled, please refer to CPSA-2004-02.
Industry Reference: CAN-2005-0805
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