Description
TinyPHPForum 3.6 and earlier stores the (1) users/[USERNAME].hash and (2) users/[USERNAME].email files under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to list all registered users and possibly obtain other sensitive information.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- TinyPHPForum 3.6 - Multiple Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities EDB-27038 · webapps · Jan 6, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 1015436 vdb-entry
- 20060105 [eVuln] TinyPHPForum Multiple Vulnerabilities mailing-list
- 22257 vdb-entry
- ADV-2006-0054 vdb-entry
- 18293 third-party-advisory
- 320 third-party-advisory
- tinyphpforum-users-information-disclosure(24016) vdb-entry
- http://evuln.com/vulns/14/summary.html
- 20060417 Tiny PHP forum - vulns mailing-list