TITLE:
FarsiNews "cutepath" File Inclusion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18637

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18637/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
FarsiNews 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/7275/

DESCRIPTION:
Hamid Ebadi has reported a vulnerability in FarsiNews, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to the "cutepath" parameter in "loginout.php" isn't
properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be
exploited to include arbitrary files from external and local
resources.

Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.1 Beta 2 and prior.
Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.5.
http://www.farsinewsteam.com/download,10101001001110111101110011.1101010001000011100011011

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Hamid Ebadi, Hamid Network Security Team

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.hamid.ir/security/farsinews.txt

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