Secunia Advisory: SA10955 Print Advisory
Release Date: 2004-02-23

Critical: Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote

Software: phpNewsManager 1.x


Description:
G00db0y has reported a vulnerability in phpNewsManager, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of sensitive information.

The "functions.php" script does not sanitise user input passed to the "clang" parameter properly, which can be exploited via classic directory traversal attacks to disclose the content of arbitrary files.

Example:
http://[victim]/functions.php?clang=../../../[existing_file]

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.46. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

Filter malicious characters and character sequences in a proxy or firewall with URL filtering capabilities.

Provided and/or discovered by:
G00db0y, Zone-h Security Labs.

Original Advisory:
http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=4024/

Source: Secunia

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