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Joomla! Appointment Booking Pro Component "view" Local File Inclusion

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45324

VERIFY ADVISORY:
Secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/45324/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=45324

RELEASE DATE:
2011-07-27
DESCRIPTION:
Don Tukulesto has reported a vulnerability in the Appointment Booking
Pro component for Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious people
to disclose sensitive information.

Input passed via the "view" parameter to index.php (when "option" is
set to "com_rsappt_pro2") is not properly verified before being used
to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files
from local resources via directory traversal attacks and URL-encoded
NULL bytes.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability is fixed in version 2.0.1 RC3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Don Tukulesto

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Appointment Booking Pro:
http://appointmentbookingpro.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=66&func=view&catid=25&id=8129#8129

Don Tukulesto:
http://blog.indonesiancoder.com/appointment-booking-pro-joomla-component-vulnerable

Joomla 1.6.6 ออกแล้ว

Joomla 1.6.6 Released

Joomla! Project ได้ประกาศ Joomla 1.6.6 [Onward] เป็นการเร่งด่วน. โดยในเวอร์ชั่นนี้เป็นการแก้ไขเรื่องความปลอดภัย และมีวัตถุประสงค์สำหรับผู้ใช้ที่ไม่ต้องการ อัพไปเป็นรุ่น 1.7.0 ซึ่งผู้ใช้ส่วนใหญ่ควรจะปรับปรุงไปเป็นรุ่น 1.7.0 เว้นแต่ว่ามีเหตุผลที่เฉพาะเจาะจงว่าทำไมจึงไม่สามารถใช้รุ่น 1.7.0 ในเวลานี้

เป้าหมายที่ยิ่งใหญ่ของทีมผ่ายผลิต คือการให้ความช่วยเหลือต่อไปอย่างสม่ำเสมอ เพื่อชุมชน Joomla. ท่านสามารถเรียนรู้เพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับ Joomla! Developement ที่เว็บไซต์นักพัฒนา.

รุ่น 1.6.5 จะถึงจุดสิ้นสุดของการพัฒนา นับจากนี้ไปอีกหนึ่งเดือนจากวันนี้ไปจนถึง 19 สิงหาคม 2011 ส่วนผู้ที่ใช้จูมล่ารุ่น 1.6 ทั้งหมด ควรปรับปรุงไปเป็นรุ่น 1.7.0 ก่อน ในช่วงนี้ ซึ่งกระบวนการปรับปรุงนั้นง่ายมาก โดยทำตามคำแนะนำที่สมบูรณ์มีอยู่ที่นี่

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Joomla Virtual Money Component "catid" SQL Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45403

VERIFY ADVISORY:
Secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/45403/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=45403

RELEASE DATE:
2011-07-27
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the Virtual Money component for
Joomla, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL
injection attacks.

Input passed via the "catid" parameter to index.php (when "option" is
set to "com_virtualmoney", "view" is set to "landpage", and "task" is
set to "subcategory") is not properly sanitised before being used in
a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by
injecting arbitrary SQL code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.5.0. Other versions may
also be affected.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Fl0riX

Joomla! AvReloaded Component "divid" SQL Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45194

VERIFY ADVISORY:
Secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/45194/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=45194

RELEASE DATE:
2011-07-24
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the AvReloaded component for
Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL
injection attacks.

Input passed via the "divid" parameter to index.php (when "option" is
set to "com_avreloaded", "view" is set to "popup", and "itemid" is
set) is not properly sanitised in
components/com_avreloaded/views/popup/view.html.php before being used
in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by
injecting arbitrary SQL code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.2.7.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.7.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the Joomla! VEL team.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/allvideos15/forum/?action=ForumBrowse&forum_id=7580&_forum_action=ForumMessageBrowse&thread_id=21138

Joomla! URL Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45295

VERIFY ADVISORY:
Secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/45295/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=45295

RELEASE DATE:
2011-07-23
DESCRIPTION:
Aung Khant has reported a vulnerability in Joomla!, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks.

Input appended to the URL after index.php is not properly sanitised
in includes/application.php before being returned to the user. This
can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a
user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.7.0.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.7.0.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Aung Khant

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Joomla!:
http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/357-20110701-xss-vulnerability.html

Aung Khant:
http://bl0g.yehg.net/2011/07/joomla-170-rc-and-lower-multiple-cross.html

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