PHP Nuke 'user.php' Form Element Substitution Vulnerabilty

BID:3107

Info

PHP Nuke 'user.php' Form Element Substitution Vulnerabilty

Bugtraq ID: 3107
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 27 2001 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 27 2001 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was discovered by dinopio and submitted to BugTraq on July 27th, 2001 by MegaHz <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 5.0
Not Vulnerable:

Exploit / POC

PHP Nuke 'user.php' Form Element Substitution Vulnerabilty

This example was provided by MegaHz <[email protected]>:

(if the form element of an avatar image equals:)

http://www.target.com/../../../dir_on_server/anyfile.ext

It will load the file when the user info of the attacker is viewed.

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PHP Nuke 'user.php' Form Element Substitution Vulnerabilty

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