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vendor:
PHP-Nuke
by:
SecurityFocus
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Cross Site Scripting
79
CWE
Product Name: PHP-Nuke
Affected Version From: N/A
Affected Version To: N/A
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: N/A
Metasploit: N/A
Other Scripts: N/A
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2002

Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability in PHP-Nuke

A cross site scripting vulnerability has been reported for PHP-Nuke. Specifically, PHP-Nuke does not sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input for the 'username' URI parameter to the modules.php script. This may allow for theft of cookie-based authentication credentials and other attacks.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to ensure that user-supplied input is properly sanitized.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7570/info

A cross site scripting vulnerability has been reported for PHP-Nuke. Specifically, PHP-Nuke does not sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input for the 'username' URI parameter to the modules.php script.

This may allow for theft of cookie-based authentication credentials and other attacks. 

http://[victim]/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&
username=bla<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>