PHPFreeNews 1.x - Admin Login SQL Injection

Author: rgod
type: webapps
platform: php
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date_added: 2005-08-01 
date_updated: 2013-06-10 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14442/info

PHPFreeNews is prone to an SQL injection vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in an SQL query.

Successful exploitation could result in a compromise of the application, disclosure or modification of data, or may permit an attacker to exploit vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

An example has been provided:

login: Admin
password: ') or isnull(1/0) or ('a'='a