J-Security Center

Title: PPPBlog Randompic.PHP Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Severity: MODERATE

Description:

pppBlog is a web-log and image gallery implemented in PHP.

pppBlog is prone to a directory-traversal vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input to the 'files' parameter of the 'randompic.php' script. The problem occurs with specially crafted HTTP GET requests containing directory-traversal strings.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to retrieve arbitrary files from the vulnerable system in the context of the application. Information obtained may aid the attacker in further attacks.

Affected Products:

  • pppBLOG pppBLOG 0.3.11
  • pppBLOG pppBLOG 0.3.8

References:

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