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October 15, 2008
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SQLi vulnerabiltiy in irrawaddy store owned by Irrawaddy Publishing Group.
PlanetCreator.Net’s Security Team Member Info Freakzz <infofreakzzz(at)gmail.com> has reported another critical SQL Injection (vulnerability) on http://www.irrawaddystore.com owned by Irrawaddy Publishing Group. These are some information from Vulneral Site http://www.irrawaddystore.com :
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