[MajorSecurity #21] phpFaber TopSites <=2.0.9 - SQL Injection Vulnerability

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[MajorSecurity #21] phpFaber TopSites <=2.0.9 - SQL Injection Vulnerability
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Software: phpFaber TopSites 

Version: <=2.0.9

Type: SQL Injection Vulnerability

Made public: July, 19th 2006 

Vendor: phpFaber, LLC

Page: http://www.phpfaber.com/


Credits:
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Discovered by: David "Aesthetico" Vieira-Kurz
http://www.majorsecurity.de

Original Advisory:
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http://www.majorsecurity.de/advisory/major_rls21.txt

Affected Products:
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phpFaber TopSites 2.0.9 and prior

Description:
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phpFaber TopSites is a feature-packed, reliable and secure Top List for webmasters who want to increase traffic to 
their websites.
It is fully customizable and doesn't require any programming skills! You can create your forms just in 3 clicks!

Vulnerability:
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Input passed directly to the "i_cat" and "method" parameter in "index.php" is not properly sanitised before being used 
in a SQL query.
This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Solution:
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Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.