J-Security Center

Title: EasyNews Path Disclosure Vulnerability

Severity: MODERATE

Description:

EasyNews is a free, open-source script for displaying news stories on a website.

EasyNews has problems handling unexpected input, which may potentially disclose sensitive information about the webserver to remote attackers.

If an attacker submits a web request containing unexpected arguments for script variables, an error message will be displayed containing the path to the webroot directory of the server running the EasyNews script.

Affected Products:

  • easyScripts easyNews 1.5.0

References:

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