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Exponent CMS "icodir" Directory Listing Disclosure Weakness Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA24934  
Release Date: 2007-04-20
Last Update: 2007-04-27

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Exponent CMS 0.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-2252 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Hamid Ebadi has discovered a weakness in Exponent CMS, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose certain system information.

Input passed to the "icodir" parameter in iconspopup.php is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to list the contents of a directory via directory traversal attacks.

The weakness is confirmed in version 0.96.5 and reported in version 0.96.6 Alpha. Other versions may also be affected.

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

Provided and/or discovered by:
Hamid Ebadi, Iran Security Research

Changelog:
2007-04-27: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.bugtraq.ir/articles/advisory/exponent_multiple_vulnerabilities/10



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1. Exponent CMS User Registration Script Insertion
2. Exponent CMS "view" Local File Inclusion Vulnerability
3. Exponent CMS Unspecified PHP Code Injection Vulnerabilities
4. Exponent CMS Multiple Vulnerabilities
5. Exponent CMS "module" Parameter Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability


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