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>> Alex News-Engine "newsid" Variable Handling Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability
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Title : Alex News-Engine "newsid" Variable Handling Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2151
CVE ID : CVE-2006-2879
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-06-06
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A vulnerability has been identified in Alex News-Engine, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "newscomments.php" script that does not validate the "newsid" parameter before being used in SQL statements, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
Affected Products
Alex News-Engine version 1.5.0 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2151
Credits
Vulnerability reported by ajann
ChangeLog
2006-06-06 : Initial release
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