Description: ilkerkandemir has discovered a vulnerability in Family Connections, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.
The vulnerability is caused due to improper checks for authentication credentials in index.php. This can be exploited to log in as an administrator by setting the "fcms_login_id" cookie to an arbitrary value.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 0.6 and reported in version 0.1.1. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution: Update to version 0.9.
Provided and/or discovered by: ilkerkandemir
Changelog: 2007-08-15: Added CVE reference.
2007-08-24: Updated "Solution" section.
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