PostNuke Multiple SQL Injection and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities were identified in PostNuke, which could be exploited by malicious people to bypass security restrictions, and perform SQL injection or cross site scripting attacks.
The first issue is due to input validation errors in the "pnVarCleanFromInput()" and "pnAntiCracker()" functions that do not properly validate certain HTML tags, which could be exploited by attackers to cause malicious scripting code to be executed by the user's browser.
The second flaw is due to input validation errors in the NS-Languages module and the "user.php" script that do not properly validate the "htmltext" parameter, which could be exploited by attackers to cause malicious scripting code to be executed by the user's browser.
The third vulnerability is due to an input validation error in the NS-Languages module that does not properly validate the "language" parameter, which could be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
The fourth issue is due to an access validation error in the "admin.php" script, which could be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access to the NS-Languages and Banners modules.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
PostNuke version 0.761 and prior
     
Solution   Upgrade to PostNuke version 0.762 : http://news.postnuke.com/Downloads-req-viewdownload-cid-1.html
     
CVE   CVE-2006-0802
CVE-2006-0801
CVE-2006-0800
     
References   http://news.postnuke.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2754
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/33
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CREATE statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UNION SELECT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SELECT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious INSERT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DROP statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2006-02-21 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote