Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in WP-Stats, which may be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "wp-stats.php" script that does not properly validate the "author" parameter, which may be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Affected Products

WP-Stats version 2.0 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.01 :
http://www.lesterchan.net/others/downloads.php?id=8

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0192

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Preddy

ChangeLog

2006-01-16 : Initial release
2006-01-17 : Updated Solution

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