A vulnerability has been identified in Helplink, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable web server. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the "show.php" script when processing the "file" parameter, which could be exploited by remote attackers to include malicious PHP scripts and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server.

Affected Products

Helplink version 0.1.0 and prior

Solution

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

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3253

Credits

Vulnerability reported by GoLd_M.

Changelog

2007-09-25 : Initial release

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