CVE-2008-1696

LOW 3.7CVE-2008-1696 · Published 08/04/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-1696 is a LOW (CVSS 3.7) vulnerability affecting dazphpnews (dazphp).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.3%, higher than 83.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
dazphpnews dazphp	`= 0.1-1`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in makepost.php in DaZPHPNews 0.1-1, when register_globals is enabled and magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the prefixdir parameter.

References

secunia.com/advisories/29653 · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/28582 · Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41608
exploit-db.com/exploits/5347

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