PHP-Nuke public message feature SQL injection
| phpnuke-publicmessage-sql-injection (15080) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
PHP-Nuke is vulnerable to SQL injection, caused by a vulnerability in the public message feature. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by passing malicious SQL commands to the public _message function of the mainfile.php script using the $p_msg variable, which would allow the attacker to obtain sensitive information, including the administrative username and MD5 password hash, to add, modify or delete information in the backend database.
Platforms Affected:
- PHP-Nuke, PHP-Nuke 6.0
- PHP-Nuke, PHP-Nuke 6.5 beta1
- PHP-Nuke, PHP-Nuke 6.5 rc2
- PHP-Nuke, PHP-Nuke 6.5 rc1
- PHP-Nuke, PHP-Nuke 6.5 rc3
- PHP-Nuke, PHP-Nuke 6.5 Final
- PHP-Nuke, PHP-Nuke 6.5
- PHP-Nuke, PHP-Nuke 6.6
- PHP-Nuke, PHP-Nuke 6.7
- PHP-Nuke, PHP-Nuke 6.9
- PHP-Nuke, PHP-Nuke 7.0 Final
- PHP-Nuke, PHP-Nuke 7.0
- PHP-Nuke, PHP-Nuke 7.1
Remedy:
No remedy available as of November 29, 2008.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Sun Feb 08 2004 - 14:15:31 CST, SQL injection in Php-Nuke 7.1.0 at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-02/0227.html.
- PHP-Nuke Web site, PHP-Nuke at http://phpnuke.org.
- BID-9615: PHP-Nuke Public Message SQL Injection Vulnerability
- CVE-2004-0266: SQL injection vulnerability in the public message capability (public_message) for Php-Nuke 6.x to 7.1.0 allows remote attackers obtain the administrator password via the c_mid parameter.
Reported:
Feb 09, 2004
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