A vulnerability was found in Koobi CMS up to 4.3.0 (Content Management System) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the file index.php. The manipulation of the argument categ 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 Koobi CMS 4.2.3 through 4.3.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the categ parameter in a links action to index.php, a different vector than CVE-2008-1122.

The weakness was shared 03/13/2008 as confirmed posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-1336 since 03/13/2008. 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. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1505.

A public exploit has been developed by JosS and been published before and not just after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 13 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. 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 X-Force (41207) and Exploit-DB (5206). The entries 41305 and 44754 are related to this item.

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• Content Management System

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• Koobi

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• CMS

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• 4.2.3
• 4.2.4
• 4.2.5
• 4.2.6
• 4.2.7
• 4.2.8
• 4.2.9
• 4.3.0

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