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Secunia Security Advisory 24177

Secunia Security Advisory 24177
Posted Feb 19, 2007
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

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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Secunia Security Advisory 24177

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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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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
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Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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