From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2005 - 16:36:59 CST

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TITLE:
MPM Guestbook Pro "header" File Inclusion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13849

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13849/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
MPM Guestbook Pro 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4516/

DESCRIPTION:
SmOk3 has reported a vulnerability in MPM Guestbook Pro, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to the "header" parameter in "top.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.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.05. Other versions
may also be affected.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
SmOk3

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.systemsecure.org/public/ss11012005.txt

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