Joomla Virtual Money Component "catid" SQL Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45403

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-07-27
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the Virtual Money component for
Joomla, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL
injection attacks.

Input passed via the "catid" parameter to index.php (when "option" is
set to "com_virtualmoney", "view" is set to "landpage", and "task" is
set to "subcategory") is not properly sanitised before being used in
a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by
injecting arbitrary SQL code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.5.0. Other versions may
also be affected.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Fl0riX