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PHP-Nuke Cross-Site Scripting
Secunia Advisory: SA8662
Release Date: 2003-04-25
Popularity: 8,266 views

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

Software:PHP-Nuke 6.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in PHP-Nuke, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct Cross-Site Scripting attacks against other users.

The vulnerability is caused due to insufficient validation of user input used in an attribute inside a tag. The characters < and > are filtered but PHP-Nuke neglects to filter out " characters. A malicious person can exploit this to execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session by including it in either the profile, comments, or a private message.

Successful exploitation can result in disclosure of various information (eg. cookie-based authentication information) associated with the site running PHP-Nuke or inclusion of malicious content, which the user thinks is part of the real website.

An example is included in the original advisory:
<a href="http://" onclick="alert('test')">http://" onclick="alert('test')</a>

The vulnerability has been reported to affect PHP-Nuke 6.5 FINAL but other versions may also be vulnerable.

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