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[SA10843] PHP-Nuke SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Feb 11 2004 - 06:34:24 CST


TITLE:
PHP-Nuke SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10843

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10843/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
PHP-Nuke 5.x
PHP-Nuke 6.x
PHP-Nuke 7.x

DESCRIPTION:
pokleyzz has reported two vulnerabilities in PHP-Nuke, allowing
malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

1) The "Search" module fails to verify input passed to the "category"
parameter properly before it is used in a SQL query. This can be
exploited to manipulate SQL queries.

2) The "Web_Links" module fails to verify input passed to the "admin"
parameter properly before it is used in a SQL query. This can be
exploited to manipulate SQL queries.

A proof of concept exploit exploiting these vulnerabilities to
enumerate the administrative password hash has been published.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 5.x, 6.x and
possibly 7.x.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source to ensure that input is properly verified.

Use another product.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
pokleyzz

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.scan-associates.net/papers/phpnuke69.txt

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