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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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