TITLE:
phphd Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18793

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18793/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
phphd 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/7965/

DESCRIPTION:
Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu has reported some vulnerabilities in phphd,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site
scripting and SQL injection attacks, and bypass certain security
restrictions.

1) Input passed to the "username" parameter in "check.php" during
login and other unspecified parameters isn't properly sanitised
before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate
SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Successful exploitation requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is
disabled.

2) An error in the authentication process in "check.php" can be
exploited to bypass the authentication process by defining certain
cookie parameters.

3) Some input passed to unspecified parameters in "add.php" isn't
properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be
exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's
browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 1.0. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised and
that users are properly authenticated.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://evuln.com/vulns/60/summary.html

----------------------------------------------------------------------

About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/

Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories
http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org

----------------------------------------------------------------------