Tikiwiki: SQL injection and multiple XSS vulnerabilities

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
www-apps/tikiwiki	< 1.9.4	>= 1.9.4	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #136723, #134483

An SQL injection vulnerability and multiple XSS vulnerabilities have been discovered.

2. Impact Information

Tikiwiki is a web-based groupware and content management system (CMS), using PHP, ADOdb and Smarty.

Tikiwiki fails to properly sanitize user input before processing it, including in SQL statements.

An attacker could execute arbitrary SQL statements on the underlying database, or inject arbitrary scripts into the context of a user's browser.

3. Resolution Information

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Tikiwiki users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/tikiwiki-1.9.4"

4. References

Page updated June 29, 2006

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