Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in CalSnails Module for MxBB Portal, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "includes/mx_common.php" script that fails to validate the "module_root_path" parameter, which could be exploited by remote attackers to include malicious files and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server.

Affected Products

CalSnails Module for MxBB Portal version 1.06 and prior

Solution

VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4612

Credits

Vulnerability reported by bd0rk

ChangeLog

2006-11-20 : Initial release

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