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TITLE:
Simple PHP News Code Execution Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33814

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33814/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Simple PHP News 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/21340/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in Simple PHP News, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable
system.

Input passed to the "title", "date", and "post" parameters in
post.php is not properly sanitised before being written to the
"news.txt" file. This can be exploited to inject and execute
arbitrary PHP code.

These vulnerabilities are confirmed in version  1.0 final. Other
versions may also be affected.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Osirys and an anonymous person.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/7999

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