A vulnerability has been identified in PHPSurveyor, which may be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "save.php" script that does not validate the "surveyid" cookie parameter, which could be exploited by malicious people to inject and execute arbitrary SQL and PHP commands with the privileges of the web server.

Affected Products

PHPSurveyor version 0.995 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to PHPSurveyor version 0.996 :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpsurveyor/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1451
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=411599&group_id=74605
http://retrogod.altervista.org/phpsurveyor_0995_xpl.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by rgod

Changelog

2006-04-21 : Initial release

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