Vulnerability in Francisco Burzi Php-Nuke

CVE-2001-0911

PHP-Nuke 5.1 stores user and administrator passwords in a base-64 encoded cookie, which could allow remote attackers to gain privileges by stealing or sniffing the cookie and decoding it.

EPSS: 0.039 (89.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Francisco_burzi Php-nuke — versions 5.1, 5.2, 5.3.1
Postnuke_software_foundation Postnuke — versions 0.64
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)