CuteNews 1.4.6 - 'from_date_day' Full Path Disclosure

EDB-ID:

33341




Platform:

PHP

Date:

2009-11-10


source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36971/info
 
CuteNews and UTF-8 CuteNews are prone to multiple vulnerabilities, including cross-site scripting, HTML-injection, information-disclosure, arbitrary-script-injection, and security-bypass issues.
 
Note that exploits for some of the issues may require administrator privilege.
 
Successful exploits may allow attackers to:
- obtain sensitive information
- gain unauthorized access to the affected application
- run arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site
- hijack user sessions
- execute arbitrary commands in the context of the webserver process
 
A successful attack will compromise the application and may aid in further attacks. 

http://www.example.com/test/cutenews/search.php?dosearch=yes&from_date_day=a&from_date_month=5&from_date_year=2003&to_date_day=4&to_date_month=5&to_date_year=2010