PlexCart X3 SQL Injection Vulnerability

PlexCart X3 SQL Injection Vulnerability

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Vuln. discovered by : r0t
Date: 19 april 2006
vendorlink:www.plexum.com/ecommerce/shopping_cart/
affected versions:X3 and previous
orginal advisory:
http://pridels.blogspot.com/2006/04/plexcart-x3-sql-inj.html
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Vuln. Description:

PlexCart contains a flaw that allows a remote sql injection
attacks.Inputpassed to the "catid" parameter in "
plexcart.pl" isn't properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This
can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

example:

/plexcart.pl?section=catalog&page=subcat&where=
catalog&catid=[SQL]

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Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
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