CVE-2008-1171 (GCVE-0-2008-1171)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-03-05 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:08 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in the 123 Flash Chat Module for phpBB allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the phpbb_root_path parameter to (1) 123flashchat.php and (2) phpbb_login_chat.php. NOTE: CVE disputes this issue because $phpbb_root_path is explicitly set to "./" in both programs
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488914/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2008-March… mailing-listx_refsource_VIM
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488922/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3716 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Date Public
2008-02-28 00:00
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