PHPNuke Search Engine SQL Injection Vulnerability

BID:6887

Info

PHPNuke Search Engine SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 6887
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 19 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 19 2003 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery of this vulnerability has been credited to: David Zentner <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.0
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 5.6
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

PHPNuke Search Engine SQL Injection Vulnerability

It has been reported that the search module distributed with PHPNuke is vulnerable to an SQL injection attack.

PHPNuke, in some cases, does not sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input which is used when constructing SQL queries. As a result, attackers may supply malicious parameters to manipulate the structure and logic of SQL queries. This may result in unauthorized operations being performed on the underlying database. This issue may be exploited to cause sensitive information to be disclosed to a remote attacker.

Exploit / POC

PHPNuke Search Engine SQL Injection Vulnerability

This vulnerability can be exploited using a web browser.

The follow exploit was provided by <[email protected]>:

Solution / Fix

PHPNuke Search Engine 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 are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

PHPNuke Search Engine SQL Injection Vulnerability

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