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>> Alex Article-Engine and News-Engine Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability
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Title : Alex Article-Engine and News-Engine Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-3213
CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
CWE ID : CWE-434
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-11-21
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A vulnerability has been identified in Alex Article-Engine and News-Engine, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable web server. This issue is caused by missing authentication in the FCKeditor "connector.php" script when handling uploaded files, which could be exploited by remote attackers to upload malicious PHP scripts and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server.
Affected Products
Alex Article-Engine version 1.3.0 and prior
Alex News-Engine version 1.5.1 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3213
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Batter.
ChangeLog
2008-11-21 : Initial release
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