PHP-Nuke Journal Module Search.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	20829
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Oct 31 2006 12:00AM
Updated:	Nov 01 2006 03:37PM
Credit:	Paisterist is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	PHP-Nuke PHP-Nuke 7.9 PHP-Nuke PHP-Nuke 7.8 PHP-Nuke PHP-Nuke 7.7 PHP-Nuke PHP-Nuke 7.6 PHP-Nuke PHP-Nuke 7.5 PHP-Nuke PHP-Nuke 7.4 PHP-Nuke PHP-Nuke 7.3 PHP-Nuke PHP-Nuke 7.2 PHP-Nuke PHP-Nuke 7.1 PHP-Nuke PHP-Nuke 7.0
Not Vulnerable:

PHP-Nuke Journal Module Search.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

The PHP-Nuke Journal module is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

PHP-Nuke 7.9 and prior versions are vulnerable.

PHP-Nuke Journal Module Search.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue via a web client.

The following proof of concept is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/20829.php

PHP-Nuke Journal Module Search.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

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

PHP-Nuke Journal Module Search.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• PHP-Nuke Homepage (PHP-Nuke)
  
• PHP-Nuke <= 7.9 Journal module (search.php) "forwhat" SQL Injection vulnerabilit (Paisterist)