PHPX up to 3.2.6 functions.inc.php checkuri limit cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in PHPX and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function checkuri of the file functions.inc.php. Such manipulation of the argument limit leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2004-2363. The attack may be performed from remote. In addition, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in PHPX (Content Management System). Affected by this issue is the function checkuri of the file functions.inc.php. The manipulation of the argument limit with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

Validate-Before-Canonicalize vulnerability in the checkURI function in functions.inc.php in PHPX 3.0 through 3.2.6 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via hex-encoded tags, which bypass the check for literal "<", ">", "(", and ")" characters, as demonstrated using the limit parameter to forums.php and a variety of other vectors.

The weakness was presented 12/31/2004 by JeiAr with Gulftech (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-2363 since 08/16/2005. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:functions.inc.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 databases at X-Force (16065), Exploit-DB (24083) and SecurityFocus (BID 10283†). See VDB-23257 for similar entry. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Content Management System

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• PHPX

Version

• 3.0.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2
• 3.0.3
• 3.0.4
• 3.0.5
• 3.0.6
• 3.0.7
• 3.1.0
• 3.1.1
• 3.1.2
• 3.1.3
• 3.1.4
• 3.2.0
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.3
• 3.2.4
• 3.2.5
• 3.2.6

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