CVE-2006-4878 Information

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in footer.php in David Bennett PHP-Post (PHPp) 1.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to read and include arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) sequence in the template parameter. NOTE: this was later reported to affect 1.0.1 and demonstrated for code execution by uploading and accessing an avatar file.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/22014 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1607 http://www.osvdb.org/28964 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446318/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20061 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20616 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3688 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29673 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2593