CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3573
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-08-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189, CWE-264
Description
The CAPTCHA implementation in (1) Pligg 9.9.5 and possibly (2) Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke 8.1 provides a critical random number (the ts_random value) within the URL in the SRC attribute of an IMG element, which allows remote attackers to pass the CAPTCHA test via a calculation that combines this value with the current date and the HTTP User-Agent string.
Affected configurations
• php-nuke php-nuke 8.1
• pligg pligg 9.9.5
Related
References
- http://www.rooksecurity.com/blog/?p=17 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30518 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44192 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://www.rooksecurity.com/blog/?p=17 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30518 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44192 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com