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>> Simple RSS Reader for Joomla Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability
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Title : Simple RSS Reader for Joomla Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-3119
CVE ID : CVE-2008-5053
CWE ID : CWE-98
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-11-12
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A vulnerability has been identified in Simple RSS Reader (component for Joomla), which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable web server. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the "admin.rssreader.php" script when processing the "mosConfig_live_site" 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
Simple RSS Reader (component for Joomla) version 1.0 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3119
Credits
Vulnerability reported by NoGe.
ChangeLog
2008-11-12 : Initial release
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