Path Traversal in Powerscripts Powernews
CVE-2008-0742
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in PowerScripts PowerNews 2.5.6 allow remote attackers to read and include arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) subpage parameter in (a) categories.inc.php, (b) news.inc.php, (c) other.inc.php, (d) permissions.inc.php, (e) templates.inc.php, and (f) users.inc.php in pnadmin/; and (2) the page parameter to (g) pnadmin/index.php. NOTE: vector 2 is only exploitable by administrators.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
EPSS: 0.023 (81.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Powerscripts Powernews — versions 2.5.6
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)