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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

CVE-2017-20173

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

A vulnerability was found in AlexRed contentmap. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function Load of the file contentmap.php. The manipulation of the argument contentid leads to sql injection. The name of the patch is dd265d23ff4abac97422835002c6a47f45ae2a66. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-218492.

  • LOW
  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
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CWE-89 - SQL Injection

Structured Query Language (SQL) injection attacks are one of the most common types of vulnerabilities. They exploit weaknesses in vulnerable applications to gain unauthorized access to backend databases. This often occurs when an attacker enters unexpected SQL syntax in an input field. The resulting SQL statement behaves in the background in an unintended manner, which allows the possibility of unauthorized data retrieval, data modification, execution of database administration operations, and execution of commands on the operating system.

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