Description
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.
References
- phpnuke-postnuke-insecure-passwords(7596) vdb-entry
- 3567 vdb-entry
- 20011121 PhpNuke Admin password can be stolen ! mailing-list