A vulnerability has been identified in UBB.threads, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "addpost_newpoll.php" script that does not validate the "thispath" parameter, which could be exploited by remote attackers to include malicious scripts and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server.

Affected Products

UBB.threads version 6.5.2 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to UBB.threads version 6.5.3 or later :
http://www.infopop.com/members/members.php

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1915

Credits

Vulnerability reported by V4mu

Changelog

2006-05-22 : Initial release

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