Title: PAFaq Database Unauthorized Access Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
paFaq is a feature rich FAQ and knowledge base system allowing Web masters to keep an organized database of frequently asked questions. It is implemented in PHP utilizing a MySQL backend.
paFaq is prone to an unauthorized access vulnerability regarding the database. This issue is a result of the application failing to perform access validation on the 'backup.php' script. A remote unauthenticated user can invoke the script and retrieve a complete backup of the application database.
The database contains, among other things, valid usernames and their respective password hashes. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to authenticate to the application using a retrieved administrator username and password hash. Thus greatly enhancing further attacks against the application and the underlying system.
Affected Products:
- PHP Arena paFaq 0.0.0Beta4
References:
- PHP Arena: paFaq Homepage
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