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PHP-Nuke Cross Site Scripting
Secunia Advisory: SA7736
Release Date: 2002-12-17
Popularity: 9,143 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:PHP-Nuke 6.x

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Description:
PHP-Nuke has been found vulnerable to several Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities.

The following scripts reveals the physical path:
modules/Downloads/voteinclude.php
modules/Your_Account/navbar.php
modules/Forums/attachment.php
modules/Forums/auth.php
modules/News/comments.php
modules/Private_Messages/functions.php
modules/Private_Messages/index.php
modules/Private_Messages/read.php
modules/Private_Messages/reply.php
modules/Web_Links/voteinclude.php
modules/WebMail/contactbook.php?user=1

The following scripts reveals the physical path and suffers Cross Site Scripting:
modules/Forums/bb_smilies.php?name=code
modules/Forums/bb_smilies.php?Default_Theme=code
modules/Forums/bb_smilies.php?site_font=}--></style>code
modules/Forums/bb_smilies.php?bgcolor1=">code
or use $sitename, $table_width, $color1, $forumver
modules/Forums/bbcode_ref.php
using the following parameters:
$name, $Default_Theme, $site_font, $sitename, $bgcolor2, $textcolor1, $bgcolor1, $forumver
modules/Forums/editpost.php
modules/Forums/newtopic.php
modules/Forums/reply.php
modules/Forums/topicadmin.php
modules/Forums/viewforum.php
using the $name parameter.
modules/Forums/searchbb.php
using the following parameters:
$name,$bgcolor3,$bgcolor1

Solution:
Use another CMS system or edit the source code so that all parameters are properly verified before being returned.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Frog Man


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