A vulnerability was found in PHP-Nuke ZClassifieds (Content Management System) (the affected version is unknown) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the file modules.php. The manipulation of the argument cat with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

SQL injection vulnerability in the ZClassifieds module for PHP-Nuke allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the cat parameter to modules.php.

The weakness was released 03/13/2008 (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-1315 since 03/13/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1505 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

It is declared as highly functional. By approaching the search of inurl:modules.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (41149).

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• Content Management System

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• PHP-Nuke

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• ZClassifieds

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• open-source

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