Planetluc mynews 1.6.4 mynews.inc.php hash cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Planetluc mynews 1.6.4. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file mynews.inc.php. Performing a manipulation of the argument hash results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-0723. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Planetluc mynews 1.6.4. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown functionality of the file mynews.inc.php. The manipulation of the argument hash with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in mynews.inc.php in MyNews 1.6.4, and other earlier 1.6.x versions, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the hash parameter in an admin action to index.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-2208.1.

The weakness was published 02/11/2008 (Website). The advisory is shared at marc.info. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-0723 since 02/11/2008. 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 and a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:mynews.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 Exploit-DB (31115) and SecurityFocus (BID 27652†). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Planetluc

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• mynews

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• 1.6.4

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