bugtraq - Re: XSS bypass in PHPNuke

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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:14:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Paul Laudanski <zx@...tlecops.com>
To: SecurityReason - sp3x <sp3x@...urityreason.com>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: XSS bypass in PHPNuke - FIX ?

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, SecurityReason - sp3x wrote:

> Hi Paul
> Do you have any idea to do fix or update filter of phpnuke against XSS that discovered my friend.
> We were working with chaserv from nukefixes.com on this fix...
> But as you wrote on bugtraq the Fix is not very good...
> 
> Any idea for good fix ??
> 
> BTW : http://castlecops.com  is  working with phpnuke team ??
> just asking :)

Hi'ya, as per my previous post you can use htmlspecialchars or 
htmlentities.  So in this case take the query and run it through 
htmlspecialchars:

$query = htmlspecialchars($query);

... _before_ you do anything with it like displaying the query back to the 
user.

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