PHP-Nuke News "Story Text" Script Insertion Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18374
Release Date: 2006-01-10
Popularity: 7,302 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:PHP-Nuke 7.x

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Description:
night_warrior771 has discovered a vulnerability in PHP-Nuke, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed to the "Story Text" field when submitting news isn't properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in an administrator's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious news is viewed for approval by the administrator.

Example:
<img src=javascript:[code]>
(requires the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser)

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 7.8. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Provided and/or discovered by:
night_warrior771


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