PBLang Bulletin Board System 4.x - 'SendPM.php' Directory Traversal

Author: Raven
type: webapps
platform: php
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date_added: 2005-03-01 
date_updated: 2013-05-03 
verified: 1 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12690/info

PBLang is reported prone to a directory traversal vulnerability. It is reported that the issue exists due to a lack of sufficient sanitization performed on user-supplied input.

A remote attacker may exploit this condition to reveal the contents of web server readable files. Reports indicate that this will allow a remote attacker to reveal account information for target users including the password hash.

http://www.example.com/pblang/sendpm.php?to=[username]&subj=[doesntmatter]&num=1&orig=/home/public_html/pblang/db/members/[username]