Joomla! HM Community Component Script Insertion and SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46656

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-11-01

DESCRIPTION:
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in the HM Community
component for Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious users to
conduct script insertion attacks and by malicious people to conduct
SQL injection attacks.

1) Input passed via the "language[]", "university[]", "persent[]",
"company_name[]", "designation[]", "music[]", "books[]", "movies[]",
"games[]", "syp[]", "ft[]", and "fa[]" parameters to index.php (when
"option" is set to "com_hmcommunity", "view" is set to "profile", and
"task" is set to "save") is not properly sanitised before being used.
This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and script code, which
will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected
site when the malicious data is being viewed.

2) Input passed via the "id" parameter to index.php (when "option" is
set to "com_hmcommunity" and "view" is set to "fnd_home") is not
properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. 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:
599eme Man

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18050/