Sphider Multiple Vulnerabilities - Aug14

Summary
This host is installed with Sphider and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.
Impact
Successful exploitation will allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary HTML and script code and SQL statements on the vulnerable system, which may lead to access or modify data in the underlying database. Impact Level: Application
Solution
No solution or patch is available as of 9th February, 2015. Information regarding this issue will be updated once the solution details are available. for updates refer to http://www.sphider.eu
Insight
Flaw is due to the /sphider/admin/admin.php script not properly sanitizing user-supplied input to the 'site_id', 'url', 'filter', and 'category' parameters.
Affected
Sphider version 1.3.6 and earlier
Detection
Send a crafted data via HTTP GET request and check whether it is able to execute sql query or not.
References