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TITLE:
CuteNews "search.php" Information Disclosure

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28202

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28202/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
CuteNews 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/1798/

DESCRIPTION:
Janek Vind has reported some vulnerabilities in CuteNews, which can
be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

Input passed to certain parameters in search.php are not properly
verified before being used. These can be exploited to e.g. enumerate
administrator user names and corresponding MD5 hashes.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 1.4.5 and 1.3.1. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Janek Vind "waraxe"

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