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PHP-Nuke Cross Site Scripting
Secunia Advisory: SA8478
Release Date: 2003-04-01
Popularity: 7,588 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: 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 a Cross Site Scripting attack in block-Forums.php.

By posting a message with a title like:
"><script>evil_code;</script>
It will be returned as valid html or script code to the users viewing the message.

Solution:
Edit the source code to strip malicious characters from title or escape malicious characters using addslashes().

Provided and/or discovered by:
lethalman


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