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Light Weight Calendar "date" PHP Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18450
Release Date: 2006-01-13
Last Update: 2006-08-04
Popularity: 6,460 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Light Weight Calendar 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-1252
CVE-2006-0206


Description:
Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu has reported a vulnerability in Light Weight Calendar, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to the "date" parameter in "index.php" isn't properly sanitised before being used in an "eval()" call. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary PHP code.

Example:
http://[victim]/index.php?stam=1928504&date=20050901);[code]&View=month

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.0. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu

Changelog:
2006-03-21: Added CVE reference.
2006-08-04: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://evuln.com/vulns/29/summary.html


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