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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2008-5878 EUVD-2008-5848GHSA-4262-475v-w946

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Phpclanwebsite (aka PCW) 1.23.3 Fix Pack 5 and earlier, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled a…

Published Jan 8, 2009 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Phpclanwebsite (aka PCW) 1.23.3 Fix Pack 5 and earlier, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled and register_globals is enabled, allow remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) boxname parameter to theme/superchrome/box.php and the (2) theme parameter to phpclanwebsite/footer.php.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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