Re: Simple CMS

Volker Tanger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.vulnerabilities
Organization Weyland Yutani Arms & Equipment
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2 Aug 2006 11:14:43 -0000
[email protected] wrote:

> The cms from http://www.cms-center.com/ uses no security at all, just
> a boolean "isloggedin". If you submit "loggedin=1" in the URL of any
> of the admin pages, you get full controll.
> 
> Proof:
> 1. Google for "powered by php mysql simple cms"
> 2. type "admin/config_pages.php?loggedin=1" behind the url
> 3. Done. It works on every admin page that uses the so called
> auth.php.


*sigh*
Another one of those. 

Solution:
Set PHP to  register_globals = off

At a *very* brief glance at SimpleCMS it looks as if it should run with
register_globals = off as it's using $_GET and $_POST to access parameters.  

Thus it is not even a SimpleCMS-induced bug (as in: requires that
setting) in the PHP configuration, but simply plain ignorance or
stupidity of the webserver admin.

Bye

Volker 


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