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PostNuke "error.php" Local File Inclusion
Secunia Advisory: SA22983
Release Date: 2006-11-21
Popularity: 7,752 views

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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