A vulnerability has been identified in FCKeditor, which could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass security restrictions. This flaw is due to an error in the file uploads functionality (not enabled by default) that fails to properly validate file extensions, which could be exploited by remote attackers to upload a malicious PHP file and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by rgod
ChangeLog
2006-02-10 : Initial release
2006-06-02 : Updated Solution
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