Tikiwiki: SQL injection and multiple XSS vulnerabilities — GLSA 200606-29

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

Affected packages

www-apps/tikiwiki on all architectures
Affected versions < 1.9.4
Unaffected versions >= 1.9.4

Background

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

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

Release date
June 29, 2006

Latest revision
June 29, 2006: 01

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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