Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 15315 Location: Kansas
Posted:
Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:30 pm
Nuke Platinum sites and regular phpnuke site are being exploited with a variation of an old exploit that was fixed in Patch Level 3.x and possibly even 2.9. Using a specially crafted url and the UNION modifier, your admin password, in md5 hashed code, can be exposed. The fact that many people use common dictionary words, this information can be used to easily get admin access to your site.
Now for this to happen, you would need to be running a version of phpnuke that is not patched current. NukeSentinel(tm) becomes an accomplice to this because the URL was bypassing the filters in NukeSentinel(tm). Actually, the filters are in there, they just weren't working correctly. With the following fix you should not have to worry. It should also be noted that if you are using NukeSentinel's Admin Auth protection and you have taken our advice and not kept the passwords the same, even if they guess your nuke password they still can't get past NukeSentinel(tm). That's a safety net but not the full soultion.
I've tested this and it should close many holes that the kiddies never spotted . I am posting it here and in a separate post of its own. My thanks to Technocrat for staying on my case about this
Edit includes/nukesentinel.php file,
FIND function st_clean_string($cleanstring) {
AFTER ADD $cleanstring = str_replace($cleanstring,strtoupper($cleanstring),$cleanstring);
Should Now Look Like function st_clean_string($cleanstring) { $cleanstring = str_replace($cleanstring,strtoupper($cleanstring),$cleanstring);
Please note that users of RavenNuke76 are not affected by this
lol...it never ends huh...
but ehh...c'mon guys...dont think that everybody is going to update with the 3.1 patch....
i think it would be wise to publish the vunerable parts that should be checked/patched...
the majority of what i know isnt on the 3.1,but non of them were ever hacked also...
thing also is that using the 3.1 chances are parts of your site wont be functional anymore....
so i think that publishing the few checkup steps would be helpfull to many...
and if not,then they will end up here with a hacked site...
I want to get help from you. My site using php-nuke 7.9 patch 3.1 and Nukesentinel 2.4.2. I just want to make sure that my site is secure, so please let me know if you can exploit my site.
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Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 15315 Location: Kansas
Posted:
Wed Dec 14, 2005 8:25 am
persona_non_grata wrote:
lol...it never ends huh...
but ehh...c'mon guys...dont think that everybody is going to update with the 3.1 patch....
i think it would be wise to publish the vunerable parts that should be checked/patched...
the majority of what i know isnt on the 3.1,but non of them were ever hacked also...
thing also is that using the 3.1 chances are parts of your site wont be functional anymore....
so i think that publishing the few checkup steps would be helpfull to many...
and if not,then they will end up here with a hacked site...
Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 15315 Location: Kansas
Posted:
Wed Dec 14, 2005 8:26 am
AFaisal wrote:
Hi,
I want to get help from you. My site using php-nuke 7.9 patch 3.1 and Nukesentinel 2.4.2. I just want to make sure that my site is secure, so please let me know if you can exploit my site.
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Regards,
AFaisal
I do not offer that 'service'. You can find all the hacks you need to test on your own by googling
AFaisal - Applying the patch above and what you have now "should" stop most current hacks and the ones that I am watching the script kiddies mess with. Who knows what tomorrow might bring.
Raven - I am glad we could agree finally I think its better for everyone
I have add line above in includes/nukesentinel.php.
Can someone PM me how to test injection my site ? I think this is funny if I asked you. I am not programmer, I am only user.
12/07/04 - Version 2.8
02/15/05 - Version 2.9
04/29/05 - Version 3.0
06/24/05 - Version 3.0 For PHP-Nuke 7.8
07/28/05 - Version 3.1
3.1 had a few changes done to it shortly after it was released, if you downloaded it in the past two months then you have the latest version that is available for downloading.
after looking into this my phpnuke that i building code name phoenix
uses that same search module from nukestyles and phpnuke 7.9 filter does not seem to be affected.
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