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PHP-Nuke Path Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10040
Release Date: 2003-10-21
Last Update: 2003-10-28
Popularity: 11,960 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:PHP-Nuke 7.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in PHP-Nuke allowing malicious people to see the installation path.

The problem is that the search module can't handle certain characters such as """, ">" and "'". This causes PHP-Nuke to return an error message that discloses the installation path.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 7.

Solution:
Configure PHP so that error messages aren't returned to the user.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Bahaa Naamneh


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