PostNuke Local File Inclusion and Comment Bypass Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA16979
Release Date: 2005-09-28
Popularity: 7,301 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:PostNuke 0.x

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in PostNuke, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and disclose sensitive information.

1) A local file inclusion vulnerability in the GeSHi library can be exploited to disclose the content of arbitrary files via the "pn_bbcode" module.

For more information:
SA16898

2) An error in the comments module can be exploited by malicious people to add comments.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions prior to 0.761.

Solution:
Update to version 0.761.
http://downloads.postnuke.com/

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Maksymilian Arciemowicz
2) Devin Hayes

Original Advisory:
http://news.postnuke.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2726
http://news.postnuke.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2727

Other References:
SA16898:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16898/


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