CVE-2008-1696 Information

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in makepost.php in DaZPHPNews 0.1-1 when register_globals is enabled and magic_quotes_gpc is disabled allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the prefixdir parameter.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/29653 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28582 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41608 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5347