Vulnerability CVE-2008-0742
Published: 2008-02-12   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Multiple LFI in PowerNews (Newsscript) 2.5.6
Digital Security...
13.02.2008

Type:

CWE-22

 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Powerscripts -> Powernews 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3647
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487773/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27688
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5082
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