MyPHPNuke Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq ID:	16815
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Feb 22 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Mar 05 2006 02:26AM
Credit:	Mustafa Can Bjorn is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	myPHPNuke myPHPNuke 1.8.8 _final_7 myPHPNuke myPHPNuke 1.8.8
Not Vulnerable:	myPHPNuke myPHPNuke 1.8.8_8

MyPHPNuke Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

MyPHPNuke is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. These issues are due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

An attacker may leverage these issues to have arbitrary script code executed in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. These may facilitate the theft of cookie-based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

MyPHPNuke Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities


An exploit is not required.

The following proof of concept URI are available:

http://www.example.com/reviews.php?op=reviews&letter=[XSS]

http://www.example.com/download.php?sortby=&dcategory=[XSS]&sortby=

MyPHPNuke Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Solution:

This issue was addressed in myPHPNuke 1.8.8_8:


myPHPNuke myPHPNuke 1.8.8

• myPHPNuke mpn1888rc23.zip
  http://www.myphpnuke.com/download.php?op=getit&lid=48

myPHPNuke myPHPNuke 1.8.8 _final_7

• myPHPNuke mpn1888rc23.zip
  http://www.myphpnuke.com/download.php?op=getit&lid=48

MyPHPNuke Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

References:

• MyPHPNuke <= 1.8.8 multiple XSS vulnerabilities ([email protected])
  
• myPHPNuke Homepage (myPHPNuke)
  
• Advisory: MyPHPNuke <= 1.8.8 multiple XSS vulnerabilities ([email protected])