Secunia Security Advisory - r0ut3r has discovered two vulnerabilities in Xpression News, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
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TITLE:
Xpression News "xnews-template" Directory Traversal
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24177
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24177/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Xpression News 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/13502/
DESCRIPTION:
r0ut3r has discovered two vulnerabilities in Xpression News, which
can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive
information.
Input passed to the "xnews-template" parameter in archives.php and
news.php is not properly sanitised before being used to display
files. This can be exploited to display arbitrary files via directory
traversal attacks.
Successful exploitation allows e.g. retrieving administrator
usernames, password hashes and e-mail addresses, but requires that
"magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.0.1. Other versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
r0ut3r
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/3332
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