PHP-Nuke Path Disclosure Vulnerability





Published: 18 October 2003



Released: 16 October 2003



Affected Systems: PHP-Nuke 7.0 (and possibly earlier versions).



Vendor: http://www.phpnuke.org





Description:

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PHP-Nuke is a Web Portal System, storytelling software, news system,

online community or whatever you want to call it. 

Its goal is to have an automated web site to distribute news and

articles with user system. 





Details:

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It's possible to disclose potentially sensitive installation path

information to the remote attacker by using ("') " and ' chars in the

search textbox : http://[Site]/modules.php?name=Search

or we can use this chars " and > and ' this chars will cause a

disclosure of the installation path and the text will protrusion out

of the search textbox.





Vendor status:

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The vendor has been informed.





Discovered by / credit:

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Bahaa Naamneh

b_naamneh@hotmail.com

http://www.bsecurity.tk