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PHP-Nuke "modules/News/index.php" SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA23128
Release Date: 2006-11-28
Last Update: 2006-12-04
Popularity: 12,524 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:PHP-Nuke 7.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-6200


Description:
Paisterist has discovered two vulnerabilities in PHP-Nuke, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "sid" parameter in modules/News/index.php from modules.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Successful exploitation allows retrieval of administrator usernames and password hashes, but requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled and that the attacker knows the prefix for the database tables.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 7.9. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Set "magic_quotes_gpc" in php.ini to On.

Use another product.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Paisterist

Changelog:
2006-12-04: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.neosecurityteam.net/index.php?action=advisories&id=30


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