Secunia Logo  
 
WebText CMS PHP Command Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA23574
Release Date: 2006-12-29
Last Update: 2007-01-05
Popularity: 7,788 views

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

Software:WebText CMS 0.x

Subscribe: Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities

CVE reference:CVE-2006-6856


Description:
Kacper has discovered a vulnerability in WebText CMS, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to the "im" parameter when editing user profiles is not properly sanitised before being stored in a PHP file. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary PHP commands, which are executed when invoking the stored PHP file.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 0.4.5.2. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
Kacper

Changelog:
2007-01-05: Added CVE reference.


Track this Secunia Advisory
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released.

Read more about our Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and what they can do for you and your company.

About this Secunia Advisory
Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.
  
Latest Advisories

Send Feedback to Secunia
If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com.

Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.

Most Popular - 3 Hours

1. Internet Explorer Data Binding Memory Corruption Vulnerability // 46 views
2. Cisco Global Site Selector DNS Request Denial of Service // 35 views
3. Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities // 32 views
4. Adobe Flash Player Multiple Security Issues and Vulnerabilities // 29 views
5. phpBB Avatar Functions Information Disclosure and Deletion // 28 views
6. Drupal Project Module File Upload and Cross-Site Scripting // 26 views
7. Winamp gen_msn Plugin Buffer Overflow Vulnerability // 24 views
8. Joomla! "X_CMS_LIBRARY_PATH" Directory Traversal Vulnerability // 22 views
9. NTP OpenSSL "EVP_VerifyFinal()" Spoofing Vulnerability // 22 views
10. Red Hat update for openssl // 21 views