Information disclosure in Phpnuke PHP-Nuke

1) Information disclosure

EUVDB-ID: #VU44671

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 4.6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3784

CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Information exposure

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 8.0 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to a .php file, which reveals the installation path in an error message, as demonstrated by themes/Odyssey/theme.php and certain other files.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

PHP-Nuke: 8.0

External links

http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/%21_README
http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/PHP-Nuke-8.0
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/6

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.