Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke up to 7.6 newlinkshowdays cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke up to 7.6. This affects an unknown function. Performing a manipulation of the argument newlinkshowdays results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2005-0434. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke up to 7.6 (Content Management System). It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument newlinkshowdays with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Php-Nuke 7.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via (1) the newdownloadshowdays parameter in a NewDownloads operation or (2) the newlinkshowdays parameter in a NewLinks operation.

The weakness was published 02/15/2005 by Janek Vind with waraxe (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2005-0434 since 02/15/2005. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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 (19346) and SecurityFocus (BID 12561†). Similar entry is available at VDB-23954. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• Francisco Burzi

Name

• PHP-Nuke

Version

• 6.0
• 6.5
• 6.5 Beta1
• 6.5 Final
• 6.5 Rc1
• 6.5 Rc2
• 6.5 Rc3
• 6.6
• 6.7
• 6.9
• 7.0
• 7.0 Final
• 7.1
• 7.2
• 7.3
• 7.6

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://bitbucket.org/phpnuke/phpnuke

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