PT-2008-4949 · Pligg+1 · Pligg+1

Published 2008-08-10 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-3573

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pligg version 9.9.5 Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke version 8.1

Description The issue concerns the CAPTCHA implementation, which provides a critical random number, ts random, within the URL in the SRC attribute of an IMG element. This allows remote attackers to bypass the CAPTCHA test by calculating a value that combines ts random with the current date and the HTTP User-Agent string.

Recommendations For Pligg version 9.9.5, consider modifying the CAPTCHA implementation to avoid exposing the ts random value in the URL. For Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke version 8.1, restrict access to the CAPTCHA functionality until a secure implementation is available.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3573

Affected Products

Php-Nuke

Pligg

References · 5

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/30518 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://rooksecurity.com/blog/?p=17 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/32142 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3573 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44192 · Note