PT-2010-1594 · Open Source Matters · Joomla!

Published 2010-04-21 · Updated 2010-06-03 · CVE-2009-4785

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Joomla! component com quicknews (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands. This is achieved by exploiting the newsid parameter in a view item action to index.php.

Recommendations For the com quicknews component, consider restricting access to the newsid parameter in the view item action to index.php until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

SQL injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-89

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-4785

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 4

• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.org/0911-exploits/joomla-quicknews.txt · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/10252 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/37161 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4785 · Security Note