A vulnerability was found in Surat Kabar phpWebNews 0.2 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the file index.php of the component MySQL. The manipulation of the argument id_kat 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:

SQL injection vulnerability in index.php in phpWebNews 0.2 MySQL Edition allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id_kat parameter.

The weakness was presented 05/22/2009 by STORM (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at milw0rm.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-6813 since 05/21/2009. 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.

A public exploit has been developed by storm and been published even before and not 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 323 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 (43684) and Exploit-DB (5998). See 48262 for similar entry.

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