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Vulnerability Assessment Details

PHP-Nuke Gallery Add-on File View

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Determine if a remote host is vulnerable to the gallery vulnerability

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote PHP-Nuke service has a version of the
'Gallery' Add-on which permit attackers to read arbitrary
files on this host.

Impact:
Every file that the webserver has access to can be read by anyone.

Solution: Disable this add-on

Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2001 Renaud Deraison

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