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paNews Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Assessment Summary Detects input validation vulnerabilities in paNews Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment Summary : The remote web server contains a PHP application that suffers from multiple flaws. Description : The remote host is running a version of paNews that suffers from the following vulnerabilities: - SQL Injection Issue in the 'login' method of includes/auth.php. A remote attacker can leverage this vulnerability to add users with arbitrary rights. - Local Script Injection Vulnerability in includes/admin_setup.php. A user defined to the system (see above) can inject arbitrary PHP code into paNews' config.php via the 'comments' and 'autapprove' parameters of the 'admin_setup.php' script. See also : http://www.kernelpanik.org/docs/kernelpanik/panews.txt http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-03/0006.html Solution : Unknown at this time. Network Security Threat Level: High / CVSS Base Score : 7 (AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:P/A:P/I:P/B:N) Networks Security ID: 12687 Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Tenable Network Security

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