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DCP-Portal SQL Injection
Secunia Advisory: SA9920
Release Date: 2003-10-02
Popularity: 4,927 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:DCP-Portal 5.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in DCP-Portal allowing malicious people to conduct SQL injection.

The problem is that DCP-Portal doesn't verify input properly allowing malicious people to include "'" in various parameters used in SQL queries thereby manipulating the SQL query. This could be exploited to bypass authentication, manipulate data and extract arbitrary data.

This only affect DCP-Portal running on systems with MySQL 4 and where "magic_quotes_gpc" is off.

This has been reported to affect version 5.5 but previous versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Configure PHP to use "magic_quotes_gpc".

Provided and/or discovered by:
Lifo Fifo


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