CVE-2008-5204

MEDIUM 6.8CVE-2008-5204 · Published 21/11/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-5204 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability affecting poweraward (poweraward).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 79.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
poweraward poweraward	`= 1.1.0`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in PowerAward 1.1.0 RC1, when register_globals is enabled, allow remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via directory traversal sequences in the lang parameter to (1) agb.php, (2) angemeldet.php, (3) anmelden.php, (4) charts.php, (5) external_vote.php, (6) guestbook.php, (7) impressum.php, (8) index.php, (9) rss-reader.php, (10) statistic.php, (11) teilnehmer.php, (12) topsites.php, (13) votecode.php, (14) voting.php, and (15) winner.php.

References

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