ahmadbady has discovered a security issue in PollHelper, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

The security issue is caused due to improper access restrictions to the "poll.inc" include file. This can be exploited to disclose user credentials used to access the MySQL database by requesting the file directly.

Successful exploitation requires that ".inc" is not declared as a php suffix.

Solution
Restrict access to the "poll.inc" include file (e.g. using a .htaccess file).

Provided and/or discovered by
ahmadbady

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Original Advisory
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/7690

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