Joomla! AWDwall Components SQL Injection and Local File Inclusion Vulnerabilities

                                                Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the AWDwall component for Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information and conduct SQL injection attacks.

1) Input passed via the "cbuser" parameter to index.php (if "option" is set to "com_awdwall" and "view" is set to "awdwall") is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

2) Input passed via the "controller" parameter to index.php (if "option" is set to "com_awdwall") is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary file from local resources via directory traversal sequences and URL-encoded NULL bytes.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.5.5.

Solution
Update to version 1.5.5.

Provided and/or discovered by
1) Jeff Channell
2) AntiSecurity