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25. April 2013

phpLiteAdmin: Italian translation available for download

Filed under: PHP,phpLiteAdmin — Tags: , , , , , — Christopher Kramer @ 18:29

We now also received an Italian translation for phpLiteAdmin! :-)Thanks a lot to Franco Tassi who posted the Italian translation in our mailing list.

We now have translations to Arabic, Chinese, German, Italian and Russian (and English of course). In our wiki, you can find the download links and install instructions.

If phpLiteAdmin is not yet translated into your language, we would be very pleased if you translated it. It is very easy and also well explained in the wiki.

Thanks to all translators!

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12. April 2013

Russian localization available for phpLiteAdmin

Filed under: PHP,phpLiteAdmin,Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , — Christopher Kramer @ 00:44

phpLiteAdmin, a web GUI for SQLite databases written in PHP, has now been translated into Russian!

Thanks to Boris Kurshev (13dagger) for the translation. It is available for download from the official website.

To install localization packages for phpLiteAdmin, just unzip them in the phpLiteAdmin folder or the “languages” subfolder and adjust $language in the configuration (e.g. to “ru” for Russian).

It is very easy to translate phpLiteAdmin into your language. Everything is explained very well in the wiki. You can also find other localization packages there for German and Russian. If your language is not yet translated, please do so and send us the file in our discussion group.

Russian phpLiteAdmin

Russian phpLiteAdmin

 

26. March 2013

phpLiteAdmin: Arabic localization available for download

Filed under: PHP,phpLiteAdmin — Tags: , , , , , , — Christopher Kramer @ 18:47
phpliteAdmin with Arabic localization

phpliteAdmin with Arabic localization

phpLiteAdmin can be easily translated into different languages. Version 1.9.4 was released together with English and German localization packages. Now teryaki did an Arabic translation for phpLiteAdmin which is now available for download. Thanks a lot!

This shows phpLiteAdmin has no problems with languages that require real UTF8 support.

To translate phpLiteAdmin into your language, read the wiki page on Localization. It also explains how to install localization packages.

 

18. March 2013

phpLiteAdmin 1.9.4 released

Filed under: DBMS,PHP,phpLiteAdmin — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , — Christopher Kramer @ 18:53

I just released phpLiteAdmin 1.9.4. phpLiteAdmin 1.9.4

phpLiteAdmin is for SQLite what phpMyAdmin is for MySQL: A web GUI to manage your databases.

A lot of work has again gone into this release. It fixes bugs and introduces new features. No security issues fixed (compared to 1.9.3.3).

Every user of phpLiteAdmin is recommended to update.

New features of phpLiteAdmin 1.9.4 include:

  • Multi-Language support
  • external configuration possible
  • empty password -> no login required
  • easy backup of db files
  • edit and delete possible from search results
  • search function: added “LIKE %…%”
  • css and Js now served as separate, cacheable and compressed resources to speed up page loading

Important bug fixes include fixes in the ALTER TABLE support. We have again spent quite a lot of work to improve phpLiteAdmin. Thanks to everybody who reported issues and especially to the team for your work on phpLiteAdmin – especially Dreadnaut and Teryaki helped me a lot in this release. Thanks guys.

Download the new version here.

26. January 2013

Funny pseudo-exploit for phpLiteAdmin

It seems people really got interested in the security of phpLiteAdmin. That’s cool, lots of people searching for security issues will give us the opportunity to fix a lot of things in a short period of time. Go on searching. We’ll go on fixing.

But some of these exploiters only publish an “exploit” that contains no real issue at all. Probably only to get some publicity, or maybe because they don’t even realize that what they “found” is not an issue at all. Or meant as a joke?

I recently found a new “security exploit” listing several “vulnerabilities”, which in fact are no bugs of phpLiteAdmin at all but misconfiguration or even features. So here I want to have a look at an “exploit” released by “KedAns-Dz”:

1-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=0
0     _                   __           __       __                     1
1   /' \            __  /'__`\        /\ \__  /'__`\                   0
0  /\_, \    ___   /\_\/\_\ \ \    ___\ \ ,_\/\ \/\ \  _ ___           1
1  \/_/\ \ /' _ `\ \/\ \/_/_\_<_  /'___\ \ \/\ \ \ \ \/\`'__\          0
0     \ \ \/\ \/\ \ \ \ \/\ \ \ \/\ \__/\ \ \_\ \ \_\ \ \ \/           1
1      \ \_\ \_\ \_\_\ \ \ \____/\ \____\\ \__\\ \____/\ \_\           0
0       \/_/\/_/\/_/\ \_\ \/___/  \/____/ \/__/ \/___/  \/_/           1
1                  \ \____/ >> Exploit database separated by exploit   0
0                   \/___/          type (local, remote, DoS, etc.)    1
1                                                                      1
0  [+] Site            : 1337day.com                                   0
1  [+] Support e-mail  : submit[at]1337day.com                         1
0                                                                      0
1               #########################################              1
0               I'm KedAns-Dz member from Inj3ct0r Team                1
1               #########################################              0
0-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-1
Okay yeah. We know exploiters love ASCII art. Kind of cool, agreed.
###
# Title : phpLiteAdmin v1.8.x->1.9.x (SQLi/FD) <= Multiple Vulnerabilities
# Author : KedAns-Dz
# E-mail : ked-h (@hotmail.com / @1337day.com)
# Home : Hassi.Messaoud (30500) - Algeria -(00213555248701)
# Web Site : www.1337day.com .net .org
# FaCeb0ok : http://fb.me/Inj3ct0rK3d
# TwiTter : @kedans
# Friendly Sites : www.r00tw0rm.com * www.exploit-id.com
# Type : proof of concept - webapp 0day - remote - php
# Tested on : Windows7
###
# <3 <3 Greetings t0 Palestine <3 <3
# F-ck HaCking, Lov3 Explo8ting !
As I said. I like exploits as well. Even if they just make me laugh 😉
######## [ Proof / Exploit ] ################|=>
# Google Dork :
# allintext:"Powered by phpLiteAdmin | "
##################
# [!] Description:
------------------
phpLiteAdmin is suffer from multiple vulnerabilities / bugs in
v1.8.x to-> 1.9.x , the attacker can use some bug in the Script
to inject some remote SQL command/code , and Disclosure the Full Path.
Interesting to say 1.9.x when there are still 1.9.x versions to be released in the future. So you are sure we won’t fix your “bugs”? Probably you are right 😉
# Bugs :
#-------
# Authentication Bypass
# SQL Injection/Exec
# Full Path Disclosure
#######################
#### (1) Authentication Bypass :
--------------------------------
[!] php-code :
line 38->39 :::::::::::::::::
//password to gain access
$password = "admin";
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
- not affected on all targets, just change the password to fix it
LOL
[+] http://[target]/[path]/phpliteadmin.php
[*] password : admin
I didn’t know we call it an “Authentication Bypass” if we use the authentication system by entering the correct password. Yeah, phpLiteAdmin has a default password, which is “admin”. No secret here. I mean, anybody keeping the default password on a publicly accessible installation should know that other people could get access. Current version of phpLiteAdmin even shows you a warning if you still use the default pw.
No “bug” or “vulnerability” at all.
#### (2) Full Path Disclosure :
-------------------------------
[+] http://[target]/[path]/phpliteadmin.php?view=import
[!] & Import File with (NULL/Bad) Content =>
- you get some sql error msg with the full path of phpliteadmin.php
ex: '-------------
Warning: PDO::exec(): SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error:
trying to execute an empty query in C:\Program Files\EasyPHP-12.1\www\phpliteadmin.php on line 987
____________________________________
Warning: SQLiteDatabase::queryExec() [sqlitedatabase.queryexec]: Cannot execute empty query.
in /homepages/20/d421371141/htdocs/pauleschoen.com/cgi-bin/phpliteadmin.php on line 646
------------------'
proof image (http://i46.tinypic.com/ddmek5.png) # in local test
proof image (http://i49.tinypic.com/juepet.png) # in remote test
LOL. That’s one of the most difficult ways to make phpLiteAdmin produce a PHP error message 😉
Probably you should configure your webserver correctly. Everybody who enables php-ini directive “display_errors” on a public server effectively provokes a “full path disclosure” somewhere. Maybe you should better publish an exploit for php itself 😉
Okay, seriously: We could use ini_set to make sure phpLiteAdmin won’t show any php errors. We probably will. But nevertheless, on about any php-server, you’ll find another script where you can provoke a php-error.
I am not saying it is good that these errors can happen at all. Of course it’d be better to improve checking of input and catch errors properly. This would be a real issue. But not a “vulnerability”. If these errors get displayed, your webserver is configured in a vulnerable way, which is not the fault of phpLiteAdmin.
#### (3) SQL Injection :
------------------------
php-code ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
$query = "SELECT * FROM ".$db->quote_id($_GET['table'])." WHERE ROWID = ".$pks[$j];
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
[+] http://[target]/[path]/phpliteadmin.php?action=row_view&table='
[&] http://[target]/[path]/phpliteadmin.php?action=row_view&table=' [ SQLi ]
If you publish an SQL injection exploit, why don’t you insert some real SQL as a proof of concept? Maybe because what you “found” here in fact is no SQL injection at all?
The function quote_id() will make sure you cannot inject some other SQL command. Of course you can “inject” some invalid table-name, which will make phpLiteAdmin show up some errors, as your “proof image” shows. So another complicated way of producing an error message. Congratulations! But you cannot inject a “DROP Table” here or something like that.
Moreover, it is ridiculous to even search for an SQL injection in phpLiteAdmin. If you are logged into phpLiteAdmin, you can of course perform any SQL command. That is what phpLiteAdmin is made for. It even gives you a GUI to perform SQL queries in a comfortable way. No need to inject them via parameters.
As long as you cannot inject an SQL query without authenticating properly, any “SQL injection” in phpLiteAdmin is not a security vulnerability but a normal issue. If some table has a special name, e.g. containing quotes, we need to make sure the name is escaped properly so phpLiteAdmin works as expected. But this is not the case here: quote_id() will make sure every table-name will be escaped properly. No issue here at all.
#### (4) Exec SQL code :
------------------------
Go to :
[*] http://[target]/[path]/phpliteadmin.php?view=sql
-& put the SQL Code in the text-area (Run SQL query/queries :)
and click 'GO' to exec ;) .
LOL. That’s a really funny one. You might call this a vulnerability, I’d call it a feature.
Don’t you show yourself here that issue 3 is ridiculous?
So I am not sure if this exploit really was meant seriously or if it was meant as a joke. It made me laugh anyway.
I hope you enjoyed it as well. Keep on exploiting!

 

15. January 2013

phpLiteAdmin 1.9.3.3 released fixing an XSS vulnerability

Filed under: PHP,phpLiteAdmin,Security — Tags: , , , , , , — Christopher Kramer @ 11:53

It seems currently people have a very close look at security of phpLiteAdmin. This is really good. We immediately fix any security issue we get aware of. Therefore, we yesterday released another security patch with version 1.9.3.3. The security issue fixed in this version is an XSS vulnerability. The risk of this particular issue is considered medium. All users of phpLiteAdmin < 1.9.3.3 are advised to update to the new version. Users of the development version of 1.9.4 should please update to the latest revision from svn, at least revision 317 (2013-01-14).

We are really sorry for those users who needed to update phpLiteAdmin three times in the last days. But the only way to solve security issues is to patch, just ignoring them will not help.

Thanks a lot to Urd for making us aware of this issue. If anybody thinks he found a security issue, please do as Urd did and contact us.

To update phpLiteAdmin, just download the new version, adjust the configuration and replace the phpliteadmin.php with the new one.

Christopher Kramer,

member of the phpLiteAdmin team

12. January 2013

phpLiteAdmin: Another security release 1.9.3.2

Filed under: PHP,phpLiteAdmin,Security — Tags: , , , , , , — Christopher Kramer @ 01:27

Yesterdays security release for phpLiteAdmin unfortunately did not fix the security issues described by an exploit published by “l@usch” completely. Therefore, today a new release 1.9.3.2 was published to cover the remaining issues.

All users of phpLiteAdmin < 1.9.3.2 are advised to update their installation to 1.9.3.2. The fixed security issues can only be used by users with access to phpLiteAdmin, i.e. users that know the password. As a general recommendation, you should always use a secure password an keep it secret. Never use the default password on a publicly accessible installation.

I’d like to thank l@usch for reporting the issue and his cooperation to resolve it.

To update, just download the new version, adjust the configuration and replace your old phpliteadmin.php with the new one.

11. January 2013

phpLiteAdmin: Release 1.9.3.1 fixes a security issue

Filed under: PHP,phpLiteAdmin,Security — Tags: , , , , , — Christopher Kramer @ 00:07

Today, a security issue of phpLiteAdmin was discovered and published. The new version 1.9.3.1, which has just been released, fixes this issue. All users of phpLiteAdmin are recommended to update their installation to the current version 1.9.3.1.
The security issue can only be used by users with access to phpLiteAdmin, i.e. users that know the password, to gain more rights on the system. Therefore, the issue cannot be exploited if you use a strong password an keep it secret. For this reason, this is always recommended. Please never use the default password if phpLiteAdmin is publicly accessible over the internet.

To update phpLiteAdmin, just adjust the configuration in the new version and replace the phpliteadmin.php with the new one. Done in a minute or two.

You can download the new version here.

24. December 2012

Happy 7th birthday, CrazyStat! And merry christmas!

Filed under: CrazyStat,PHP,phpLiteAdmin — Tags: , , , — Christopher Kramer @ 17:02

Sorry CrazyStat, this time I am two days late. On Saturday, it was CrazyStat’s 7th birthday.

As every year, I want to give a look back at what happened this year, and a look forward on my plans on the future.

Most importantly, the development of CrazyStat got more open, as I had planned. I opened a Sourceforge project for CrazyStat, a forum for discussion and support, and made CrazyStat’s svn publicly available on Sourceforge. So a bugtracker and a FAQ script is still to be opened. I guess I’ll do so this year.

Another great thing that happened: CrazyStat got translated into two more languages: Russian  and Portuguese. Together with English, German, Dutch and Danish, CrazyStat is now available in 6 languages. Thanks a lot to all translators for their work! I hope a lot of more languages will come in the future. If you speak another language, please contact me, it is really not so much work to do.

With the release of 1.71 RC1 (which basically is a final version, I won’t release another 1.71), CrazyStat also made some good improvements, although it was mainly a maintenance release.

Looking at my plans I had last year, not every goal has been achieved yet, but some of them have: The release of 1.71, making CrazyStat development more open and blogging more. For version 1.80, I did not find much time this year. But CrazyStat development will continue this year, so stay tuned.

Thanks to all users of CrazyStat. Especially thanks to everybody who donated! If you like CrazyStat, please consider a small donation.  Thanks a lot also to those users who gave feedback, requested features and reported bugs. If you do so, please use the forum.

I also joined the development team of phpLiteAdmin, a web-GUI for SQLite-Databases. I think phpLiteAdmin is a very promising project and I will continue my participation in it.

Merry Christmas everybody and a happy new year!

3. November 2012

phpLiteAdmin 1.9.3 released (security-update)

Filed under: DBMS,PHP,phpLiteAdmin,Security,Server Administration — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , — Christopher Kramer @ 00:45
Screenshot of phpLiteAdmin 1.9.3

Screenshot of phpLiteAdmin 1.9.3

Some minutes ago, I released the new version of phpLiteAdmin, a web management GUI for SQLite databases written in PHP. You can download it from our project site.

The new version addresses and mostly fixes lots of issues. Among these, one security issue has been fixed. Therefore, I’d recommend anybody using phpLiteAdmin to update.

A lot of work has gone into this release, fixing lots of bugs to make phpLiteAdmin more robust. For example, you can now have tables or columns containing special characters. The ALTER TABLE features have been partly rewritten so they now work a lot more reliable. And lots of other issues have been fixed. Thanks to anybody who reported bugs to the bug tracker.

If you still have any problems or suggestions, please let us know on our issue tracker.

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