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Gentoo: GLSA-200501-41 High: TikiWiki Command Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey January 30, 2005
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Vulnerabilities in TikiWiki allow the execution of harmful PHP scripts. It is essential to update to the newest version promptly to ensure protection.
A bug in TikiWiki allows certain users to upload and execute malicious PHP scripts.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-41 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: TikiWiki: Arbitrary command execution Date: January 30, 2005 Bugs: #78944 ID: 200501-41

Synopsis ======= A bug in TikiWiki allows certain users to upload and execute malicious PHP scripts.
Background ========= TikiWiki is a web-based groupware and content management system (CMS), using PHP, ADOdb and Smarty.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apps/tikiwiki < 1.8.5 >= 1.8.5
========== TikiWiki does not validate files uploaded to the "temp" directory.
Impact ===== A malicious user could run arbitrary commands on the server by uploading an...

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