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XML-RPC for PHP Nested XML Tags PHP Code Execution
Secunia Advisory: SA16431
Release Date: 2005-08-15
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Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:XML-RPC for PHP 1.x

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Description:
Stefan Esser has reported a vulnerability in XML-RPC, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Certain XML tags that are nested in parsed documents are not properly sanitised before being used in an "eval()" call. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 1.1.1 and prior.

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