('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Hello, All PHP-Nuke versions, including the just released 6.0, are vulnerable to a very simple SQL injection that may lead to a basic DoS attack. For instance, if you create a short script, to send a few requests, (I have tested with just 6) similar to this: http://www.nukesite.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1234%20or% 201=1 after a real short time the load of the machine is so high that it will become inacessible. When the script is stopped, the server will take a few minutes to recover from the load and become acessible again. Well, the number of requests depends on your MySQL parameters and hardware, but in general all the tested php-nuke sites where vulnerable and become inacessible. If you are running PHP-Nuke, I suggest the creation of some filters to avoid this kind of attack. Other things can be made, but I will not talk about them now. I will wait until Francisco fix them. Francisco was noticed a month ago, but the problems persist. Maybe he is busy reading the new revision of the "Building Secure Web Applications and Web Services" OWASP document. :] Cheers, Pedro Inacio
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