Secunia Security Advisory - Katatafish has discovered two vulnerabilities in GL-SH Deaf Forum, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
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TITLE:
GL-SH Deaf Forum Two Local File Inclusion Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25893
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25893/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
GL-SH Deaf Forum 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/10637/
DESCRIPTION:
Katatafish has discovered two vulnerabilities in GL-SH Deaf Forum,
which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive
information.
1) Input passed to the "FORUM_LANGUAGE" parameter in functions.php is
not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be
exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.
2) Input passed to the "style" parameter in bottom.php is not
properly verified before being used to include files. This can be
exploited to include arbitrary files from local resources.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that
"magic_quotes_gpc" is disabled.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 6.4.4. Other versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Katatafish
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/4124
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