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PostNuke "error.php" Local File Inclusion Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA22983  
Release Date: 2006-11-21

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

Software:PostNuke 0.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in PostNuke, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

Input passed to the "PNSVlang" variable is not properly sanitised before it is used to include files in error.php. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files via directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.764.

Solution:
Update to version 0.764.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Kacper.

Original Advisory:
http://community.postnuke.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2787



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