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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2005-1998 EUVD-2005-2000GHSA-8p69-hfjg-c7fw

Directory traversal vulnerability in admin.php in McGallery 1.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the l…

Published Jun 20, 2005 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in admin.php in McGallery 1.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the lang parameter.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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