Technical Description

A vulnerability was identified in XML-RPC for PHP, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This flaw is due to an input validation error when processing, via an "eval()" call, certain XML tags nested in parsed documents, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP commands.

Affected Products

XML-RPC for PHP version 1.1.1 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to XML-RPC for PHP version 1.2 :
http://phpxmlrpc.sourceforge.net/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1413
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_152005.67.html

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Stefan Esser

ChangeLog

2005-08-15 : Initial release

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