TITLE:
MvBlog Script Insertion and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19634

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19634/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
MvBlog 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/9319/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in MvBlog, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion and SQL
injection attacks.

1) Some input 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 name and body fields when posting a comment
isn't properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to
inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a
user's browser session in context of an affected site when the
malicious user data is viewed.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions prior to 1.6.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.6.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148132&package_id=163918&release_id=409151

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits todsah.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://dev.mvblog.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/54
http://dev.mvblog.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/55

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