Newsportal poll.php code execution
| newsportal-poll-code-execution (26471) |  High Risk |
Description:
Newsportal could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the poll.php script. If register_globals is enabled, a remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request to the poll.php script to execute arbitrary code on the system.
Platforms Affected:
- Florian Amrhein, Newsportal prior to 0.37
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Newsportal (0.37 or later), available from the Newsportal Web site. See References.
Consequences:
Gain Access
References:
- Bugtraq Mailing List, Tue May 16 2006 - 09:10:36 CDT , Newsportal: code injection vulnerability at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-05/0308.html.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Wed May 17 2006 - 09:19:49 CDT, Newsportal <= 0.36 Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-05/0325.html.
- Newsportal Web site, Florian Amrhein : NewsPortal WebNewsReader at http://florian-amrhein.de/newsportal.
- BID-18000: NewsPortal Remote PHP Script Code Injection Vulnerability
- CVE-2006-2556: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Florian Amrhein NewsPortal before 0.37, and possibly TR Newsportal (TRanx rebuilded), allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unknown vectors.
- OSVDB ID: 25578: Florian Amrhein NewsPortal Unspecified XSS
- SA20128: NewsPortal Cross-Site Scripting and File Inclusion
- VUPEN/ADV-2006-1838: NewsPortal Remote PHP File Inclusion and Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Reported:
May 16, 2006
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