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TITLE:
PHPFreeNews SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16490

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16490/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
PHPFreeNews 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/5470/

DESCRIPTION:
matrix_killer has discovered some vulnerabilities in PHPFreeNews,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection
and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

1) Input passed to the "Match" and "CatID" parameters in
SearchResults.php isn't properly sanitised before being used in a SQL
query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting
arbitrary SQL code.

2) Input passed to the "NewsMode" and "Match" parameters in
SearchResults.php and NewsCategoryForm.php isn't properly sanitised
before being returned to users. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context
of a vulnerable site.

The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 1.40. Other
versions may also be affected.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
matrix_killer, h4cky0u Security Forums.

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