CVE-2008-3573: 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…

PriorityP425medium5CVSS 2.0

AVNACLAuNCNIPAN

EXPLOIT

EPSS

1.95%

77.7th percentile

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

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
php-nuke	php-nuke	—	—
pligg	pligg	—	—

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