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Free Articles Directory Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks for file includes in Free Articles Directory

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

The remote web server contains a PHP application that is affected by a
remote file include vulnerability.

Description :

The remote host is running Free Articles Directory, a CMS written in
PHP.

The installed version of Free Articles Directory fails to sanitize
user input to the 'page' parameter in index.php. An unauthenticated
attacker may be able to read arbitrary local files or include a file
from a remote host that contains commands which will be executed by
the vulnerable script, subject to the rights of the web server
process.

See also :

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-03/0396.html

Solution :

Unknown at this time.

Network Security Threat Level:

High / CVSS Base Score : 7.0
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:P/I:P/A:P/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 17183

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Josh Zlatin-Amishav

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