PHP-Nuke News Module "sid" Parameter Handling SQL Injection Vulnerability


Description   A vulnerability has been identified in PHP-Nuke, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "modules/News/index.php" script that does not validate the "sid" parameter before being used in SQL statements, which could be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
PHP-Nuke version 7.9 and prior
     
Solution  
     
CVE   CVE-2006-6200
     
References   http://www.neosecurityteam.net/index.php?action=advisories&id=30
     
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 
2006-11-28 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote