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TITLE:
FlatNuke Profile Level Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34670

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34670/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in FlatNuke, which can be
exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges and
compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in
sections/none_Login/section.php, which can be exploited to gain
administrative privileges to the application via a specially crafted
request.

Successful exploitation requires that "magic_quotes_gpc" is
disabled.

NOTE: This can further be exploited to upload and execute arbitrary
PHP code via the file manager module.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.7.1. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Restrict network access to trusted users only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Juri Gianni aka yeat

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/8399

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