TITLE:
FarsiNews Local File Inclusion Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18768

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18768/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
Hamid Ebadi has reported two vulnerabilities in FarsiNews, which can
be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

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

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 2.1 and 2.5 and
prior.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.5.3.
http://www.farsinewsteam.com/download,11111110111110011010100110.101001100001101111111001

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.hamid.ir/security/farsinews2-5.txt

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