OSVDB ID: 25577

Title: Florian Amrhein NewsPortal poll.php Remote File Inclusion

Info

Disclosure

May 16, 2006

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Description

NewsPortal contains a flaw that may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands. The issue is due to poll.php not properly sanitizing user input supplied to the "file_newsportal" variable. This may allow an attacker to include a file from a remote host that contains arbitrary commands which will be executed by the vulnerable script.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Public, Exploit Rumored
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.37 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Florian Amrhein

NewsPortal

0.36

References

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete



Direct URL: http://osvdb.org/25577