vendor:
DaZPHP News
by:
Kezzap66345, Str0ke, Dread 35
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Directory Traversal
22
CWE
Product Name: DaZPHP News
Affected Version From: 0.1-1
Affected Version To: 0.1-1
Patch Exists: NO
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: a:dazphp:dazphp_news
Metasploit:
N/A
Other Scripts:
N/A
Tags: N/A
CVSS Metrics: N/A
Nuclei References:
N/A
Nuclei Metadata: N/A
Platforms Tested: None
2008
DaZPHP
DaZPHP is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack which allows an attacker to read arbitrary files from the server. This is due to a lack of proper sanitization of user-supplied input to the 'prefixdir' parameter in the 'makepost.php' script. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted HTTP request containing directory traversal sequences (e.g. '../../../../../../etc/passwd') to the vulnerable script.
Mitigation:
Input validation should be used to prevent directory traversal attacks. All user-supplied input should be validated and filtered to ensure that it does not contain any malicious characters.
