McGallery 1.1 admin.php lang path traversal

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in McGallery 1.1 and classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the file admin.php. This manipulation of the argument lang causes path traversal. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2005-1998. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in McGallery 1.1 (Photo Gallery Software). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the file admin.php. The manipulation of the argument lang with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Directory traversal vulnerability in admin.php in McGallery 1.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the lang parameter.

The weakness was published 06/15/2005 by D_BuG (Website). The advisory is shared at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2005-1998 since 06/20/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:admin.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (21016), Exploit-DB (25823), SecurityFocus (BID 13963†), OSVDB (17343†) and Secunia (SA15727†). Similar entry is available at VDB-25524. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Researcher: D_BuG
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-1998 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-1998
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-25525
X-Force: 21016
SecurityFocus: 13963 - McGallery Lang Argument File Disclosure Vulnerability
Secunia: 15727 - mcGallery "lang" Local File Inclusion Vulnerability, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 17343 - mcGallery admin.php lang Parameter Traversal Arbitrary File Access
SecurityTracker: 1014215

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 11:41
Updated: 08/15/2025 10:33
Changes: 03/11/2015 11:41 (64), 07/09/2018 09:03 (2), 08/15/2025 10:33 (23)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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