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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Com Ynews 1.0.0 on Joomla. This affects an unknown part of the file index.php. The manipulation of the argument ID leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-0653. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Com Ynews 1.0.0 on Joomla (Joomla Component). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the file index.php. The manipulation of the argument id with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

SQL injection vulnerability in index.php in the Ynews (com_ynews) 1.0.0 component for Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter in a showYNews action.

The weakness was presented 02/07/2008 by Crackers_child (Website). The advisory is available at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-0653 since 02/07/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1505 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:index.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (5072) and SecurityFocus (BID 27649†). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Com Ynews

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• 1.0.0

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