Joomla Eventing Component "catid" SQL Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33563

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33563/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Eventing 1.x (component for Joomla!)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/21002/

DESCRIPTION:
Cyb3R-1st has reported a vulnerability in the Eventing component for
Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL
injection attacks.

Input passed via the "catid" parameter in index.php (when "option" is
set to "com_eventing") is not properly sanitised before being used in
SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by
injecting arbitrary SQL code.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Cyb3R-1st

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/7793