Title: Geeklog Forgot Password SQL Injection Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Geeklog is open-source weblog software. It is written in PHP and will run on most Unix and Linux variants, as well as Microsoft Windows operating systems.
An SQL injection vulnerability has been reported in the Geeklog "forgot password" feature (introduced in Geeklog 1.3.8). This feature allows for user passwords to be reset.
Due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input, it is possible for remote attacks to influence database queries. In particular, a SELECT query is made by the software when a user attempts to use the feature to change a password. It is possible for a remote attacker to include malicious SQL syntax as an argument for the $rid variable, which represents the requesting user's ID. It has been demonstrated that this could be exploited to reset any user's password, including the administrator.
Due to the nature of this vulnerability, direct attacks against the database are also possible such as manipulating queries to disclose sensitive information or attempts to exploit latent vulnerabilities in the database itself.
Affected Products:
- Geeklog Geeklog 1.3.8
- Geeklog Geeklog 1.3.8 -1
- Geeklog Geeklog 1.3.8 -1sr1
- Geeklog Geeklog 1.3.8 rc1
- Geeklog Geeklog 1.3.8 rc2
References:
- Geeklog: Geeklog Homepage
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