A vulnerability has been identified in aWebNews, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This issue is due to input validation errors in the "listing.php" and "visview.php" scripts that do not validate the "path_to_news", which could be exploited by remote attackers to include malicious PHP scripts and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server.
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Vulnerability reported by ThE dE@Th
ChangeLog
2007-03-05 : Initial release
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