Description: Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in iPrimal Forums, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions or compromise a vulnerable system.
1) The admin/chk_admin.php script does not correctly verify the administrators credentials. This can be exploited bypass the authentication to perform various administrative actions, e.g. changing a user's password.
2) Input passed to the "p" parameter in index.php and admin/index.php is not properly verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from local or external resources.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in a version downloaded 2006-11-07. Other versions may also be affected.
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