CVE-2008-2650 Information

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in cmsimple/cms.php in CMSimple 3.1 when register_globals is enabled allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the sl parameter to index.php. NOTE: this can be leveraged for remote file execution by including adm.php and then invoking the upload action. NOTE: on 20080601 the vendor patched 3.1 without changing the version number.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/45881 http://secunia.com/advisories/30463 http://www.cmsimple.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29450 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42792 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42793 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5700