Secunia Security Advisory - Rizgar has discovered a vulnerability in PHPCentral Poll, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
PHPCentral Poll "_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]" File Inclusion
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26434
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26434/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
REVISION:
1.1 originally posted 2007-08-15
SOFTWARE:
PHPCentral Poll
http://secunia.com/product/15267/
DESCRIPTION:
Rizgar has discovered a vulnerability in PHPCentral Poll, which can
be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
An incorrect use of the "extract()" function in functions.php can be
exploited to overwrite certain server set variables. This can further
be exploited to include arbitrary files from local or external
resources e.g. via the "_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]" parameter in poll.php
and pollarchive.php.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Rizgar
CHANGELOG:
2007-08-15: Added CVE reference.
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