From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 05:02:04 CDT

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TITLE:
phpChess Community Edition Multiple File Inclusion

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25147

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25147/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information,
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
phpChess Community Edition 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/14127/

DESCRIPTION:
GolD_M has discovered some vulnerabilities in phpChess Community
Edition, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose
sensitive information or to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to the "Root_Path" parameter in
skins/phpchess/layout_admin_cfg.php, skins/phpchess/layout_cfg.php,
and skins/phpchess/layout_t_top.php is not properly verified before
being used to include files. This can be exploited to include
arbitrary files from local or external resources.

Successful exploitation requires that "register_globals" is enabled.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 2.0. Other versions may
also be affected.

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

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
GolD_M a.k.a. Mahmood_ali

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/3837

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