TITLE:
phpBannerExchange "email" Directory Traversal

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19127

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19127/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
phpBannerExchange 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/8597/

DESCRIPTION:
Tix has discovered a vulnerability in phpBannerExchange, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

Input passed to the "email" form field in recoverpw.php is not
properly sanitised before being used by resetpw.php. This can be
exploited to disclose the contents of arbitrary files via directory
traversal attacks.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 2.0 on a Linux
system. Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tix

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.h4cky0u.org/advisories/HYSA-2006-004-phpbanner.txt

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