vendor:
Artists component
by:
SecurityFocus
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
SQL Injection
89
CWE
Product Name: Artists component
Affected Version From: Joomla! and Mambo
Affected Version To: Joomla! and Mambo
Patch Exists: No
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: N/A
Metasploit:
N/A
Other Scripts:
N/A
Tags: N/A
CVSS Metrics: N/A
Nuclei References:
N/A
Nuclei Metadata: N/A
Platforms Tested: N/A
2007
The Artists component for Joomla! and Mambo is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability
The Artists component for Joomla! and Mambo is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to the vulnerable application. This request contains malicious SQL statements that can be used to access or modify data in the backend database.
Mitigation:
Input validation should be used to ensure that untrusted data is not used to construct SQL queries in a way that would allow an attacker to modify the logic of the executed query.