A vulnerability was found in Henning Stoverud PHPhotoalbum 0.5 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the file thumbnails.php. The manipulation of the argument pid 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. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in PHPhotoalbum 0.5 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) album parameter to thumbnails.php and the (2) pid parameter to displayimage.php.

The weakness was published 05/29/2008 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-2501 since 05/29/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1505 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. By approaching the search of inurl:thumbnails.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 (42670), Exploit-DB (5683) and Secunia (SA30407†).

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• Henning Stoverud

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• PHPhotoalbum

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• 0.5

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