PHP-Fusion Two Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA15830
Release Date: 2005-06-27
Last Update: 2005-07-04
Popularity: 7,222 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:PHP-Fusion 4.x
PHP-Fusion 5.x
PHP-Fusion 6.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-2074
CVE-2005-2075


Description:
Easyex has discovered two vulnerabilities in PHP-Fusion, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks or disclose sensitive information.

1) Input passed to the "news_body", "article_description", and "article_body" parameters in "submit.php" is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious user data is viewed.

2) Missing access control restrictions on the "administration/db_backups/" directory makes it possible to retrieve the database backup files containing users' password hashes.

The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 6.00.105. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 6.00.106.
http://www.php-fusion.co.uk/downloads.php?cat_id=3

Provided and/or discovered by:
Easyex, Dark Assassins Crew.

Changelog:
2005-06-29: Added CVE references.
2005-07-04: New version released. Updated "Solution" section.

Original Advisory:
http://dark-assassins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=142
http://dark-assassins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=145


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