Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in phpBB2 Plus, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. These issues are caused by input validation errors in the "language/lang_german/lang_main_album.php", "language/lang_german/lang_admin_album.php", "language/lang_english/lang_main_album.php", and "language/lang_english/lang_admin_album.php" scripts when processing the "phpbb_root_path" 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

phpBB2 Plus version 1.53 and prior

Solution

Upgrade to phpBB2 Plus version 1.53a :
http://www.phpbb2.de/dload.php

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3247
http://www.phpbb2.de/ftopic45218.html

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Mehrad Ansari Targhi and the vendor.

Changelog

2007-09-24 : Initial release

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