Florian Amrhein NewsPortal 0.36 poll.php file_newsportal file inclusion

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Florian Amrhein NewsPortal 0.36. This affects some unknown processing of the file poll.php. The manipulation of the argument file_newsportal with an unknown input leads to a file inclusion vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-73. The product allows user input to control or influence paths or file names that are used in filesystem operations. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in extras/poll/poll.php in Florian Amrhein NewsPortal before 0.37, and TR Newsportal (TRanx rebuilded), allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the file_newsportal parameter.

The weakness was presented 05/15/2006 by Kacper (Website). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2006-2557 since 05/23/2006. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details and a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by Kacper and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:poll.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 0.37 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (26439) and Exploit-DB (1789). See 30392 and 83950 for similar entries.

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Class: File inclusion
CWE: CWE-73
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: Kacper
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Upgrade: NewsPortal 0.37

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Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Kacper
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-2557 (🔍)
X-Force: 26439
SecurityFocus: 18000 - NewsPortal Remote PHP Script Code Injection Vulnerability
Secunia: 20119 - TR Newsportal "file_newsportal" Parameter File Inclusion Vulnerability, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 25531 - TR Newsportal poll.php file_newsportal Parameter Remote File Inclusion
Vupen: ADV-2006-1838

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 08/07/2017 08:45
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (52), 08/07/2017 08:45 (20)
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