James Bercegay has discovered some vulnerabilities in Advanced Electron Forum (AEF), which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to insecure calls of "preg_replace()" with the "e" modifier. These can be exploited to inject and execute arbitrary PHP code e.g. via the "email" tag when posting to the forum.

The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 1.0.6. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 1.0.7.

Provided and/or discovered by
James Bercegay, GulfTech Security Research Team

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Original Advisory
Advanced Electron Forum:
http://www.anelectron.com/board/index.php?tid=3282

GulfTech:
http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00131-09202008

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