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TITLE:
Free PHP VX Guestbook Security Bypass Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31850

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31850/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Free PHP VX Guestbook 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/19850/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Free PHP VX Guestbook,
which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

1) A vulnerability is caused due to improper access restriction in
admin/backupdb.php. This can be exploited to download a database
backup without valid user credentials.

2) A vulnerability is caused due to improper access restriction. This
can be exploited to bypass the authentication mechanism and gain
access to the administration section by setting the "admin_name" and
"admin_pass" cookies to "1".

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 1.06. Prior versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.07.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) SirGod
2) Stack

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
1) http://milw0rm.com/exploits/6456
2) http://milw0rm.com/exploits/6457

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