PHP-Nuke Gallery Module 'aid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	27957
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2008-4804
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Feb 23 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	May 07 2015 05:32PM
Credit:	S@BUN is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	PHP-Nuke Gallery 1.3
Not Vulnerable:

PHP-Nuke Gallery Module 'aid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

The Gallery module for PHP-Nuke 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.

Gallery 1.3 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

PHP-Nuke Gallery Module 'aid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following example URI is available:

http://www.example.com/modules.php?name=Sections&sop=printpage&artid=-9999999/**/union/**/select/**/pwd,aid/**/from/**/nuke_authors/*where%20admin1/**

PHP-Nuke Gallery Module 'aid' Parameter 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].

PHP-Nuke Gallery Module 'aid' Parameter SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• PHP-Nuke Homepage (PHP-Nuke)
  
• php-nuke Recipes SQL Injection(recipeid) ([email protected])