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WHMCS - Critical Security Advisory for 5.x

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Below is the contents of the WHMCS Notice found here for your convenience.

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WHMCS has released new patches for the 5.2 and 5.1 minor releases. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the WHMCS product. You are highly encouraged to update immediately.

WHMCS has rated these updates as having critical security impacts. Information on security ratings is available at http://docs.whmcs.com/Security_Levels.

Releases
The following patch release versions of WHMCS have been published to address a specific SQL Injection vulnerability:
v5.2.8
v5.1.10

Security Issue Information

The resolved security issue was publicly disclosed by "localhost" on October 3rd, 2013.
The vulnerability allows an attacker, who has valid login to the installed product, to craft a SQL Injection Attack via a specific URL query parameter against any product page that updates database information.

Mitigation

WHMCS Version 5.2

Download and apply the appropriate patch files to protect against these vulnerabilities.

Patch files for affected versions of the 5.2 series are located on the WHMCS site as itemized below.

v5.2.8 (full version) - Downloadable from our Support System
v5.2.8 (patch only; for 5.2.7) - http://go.whmcs.com/218/v528_Incremental

To apply a patch, download the files indicated above and replace the files within your installation.
No upgrade process is required.

WHMCS Version 5.1

Download and apply the appropriate patch files to protect against these vulnerabilities.

Patch files for affected versions of the 5.1 series are located on the WHMCS site as itemized below.

v5.1.10 (patch only; for 5.1.9) - http://go.whmcs.com/226/v5110_Incremental

To apply a patch, download the files indicated above and replace the files within your installation.  No upgrade process is required.

All version of WHMCS are affected by this vulnerability, however only 5.1 and 5.2 will be provided updates per our Long Term Support Policy.

You can read more about our Long Term Support Policy here:

http://docs.whmcs.com/Long_Term_Support

 

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All resellers have been notified via email about this issue.


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