GLSA 200606-29: Tikiwiki: SQL injection and multiple XSS vulnerabilities
Severity: | normal |
Title: | Tikiwiki: SQL injection and multiple XSS vulnerabilities |
Date: | 06/29/2006 |
Bugs: |
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ID: | 200606-29 |
Synopsis
An SQL injection vulnerability and multiple XSS vulnerabilities have been discovered.Background
Tikiwiki is a web-based groupware and content management system (CMS), using PHP, ADOdb and Smarty.
Affected packages
Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
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www-apps/tikiwiki | < 1.9.4 | >= 1.9.4 | All supported architectures |
Description
Tikiwiki fails to properly sanitize user input before processing it, including in SQL statements.
Impact
An attacker could execute arbitrary SQL statements on the underlying database, or inject arbitrary scripts into the context of a user's browser.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All Tikiwiki users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/tikiwiki-1.9.4"
References
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
Concerns?
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License
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