PHP-Nuke Banner Ad Interference Vulnerability

vendor:

PHP-Nuke

by:

SecurityFocus

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

Remote Code Execution

CWE

Product Name: PHP-Nuke

Affected Version From: PHP-Nuke 5.0

Affected Version To: PHP-Nuke 5.2

Patch Exists: Yes

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: a:phpnuke:php-nuke

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: N/A

2002

PHP-Nuke Banner Ad Interference Vulnerability

A querystring can be submitted to an unpatched server which allows the remote user to specify a new destination URL to be opened in a visitor's browser upon clicking a PHP-nuke site's ad banner. By changing the click-through destination of a banner ad, an attacker could interfere with the target's ad-based revenue generation.

Mitigation:

Apply the patch provided by the vendor.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2544/info

PHP-Nuke is a website creation/maintainence tool written in PHP3.

A PHP-Nuke feature supporting cycling ad banners is subject to interference from a remote user.

A querystring can be submitted to an unpatched server which allows the remote user to specify a new destination URL to be opened in a visitor's browser upon clicking a PHP-nuke site's ad banner.

By changing the click-through destination of a banner ad, an attacker could interfere with the target's ad-based revenue generation.

To change the url of the first banner you should enter in your browser

http://target/banners.php?op=Change&bid=bannerid&url=http://where.to

if we want to change the banner number 1 to redir to

www.you_are_redir

we write

http://www.example.com/banners.php?op=Change&bid=1&url=http://you.are.redir

(where www.example.com is the server running php-nuke)