Secunia Security Advisory - mafialbano has discovered a vulnerability in Pawfaliki, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
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TITLE:
Pawfaliki "page" Directory Traversal Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26702
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26702/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Pawfaliki 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/15609/
DESCRIPTION:
mafialbano has discovered a vulnerability in Pawfaliki, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.
Input passed to the "page" parameter in pawfaliki.php is not properly
sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to display
arbitrary files via directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 0.5.1. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
mafialbano
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