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Gentoo: GLSA-200507-07 Urgent: TikiWiki Remote Code Execution Issue

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Calendar Grey July 6, 2005
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The Gentoo GLSA 200802-02 identifies a severe vulnerability in WordPress, enabling unauthorized access to sensitive data through insecure file permissions.
TikiWiki includes PHP XML-RPC code, making it vulnerable to arbitrary command execution.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: TikiWiki: Arbitrary command execution through XML-RPC Date: July 06, 2005 Bugs: #97648 ID: 200507-06

Synopsis ======= TikiWiki includes PHP XML-RPC code, making it vulnerable to arbitrary command execution.
Background ========= TikiWiki is a web-based groupware and content management system (CMS), using PHP, ADOdb and Smarty. TikiWiki includes vulnerable PHP XML-RPC code.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apps/tikiwiki < 1.8.5-r1 >= 1.8.5-r1
========== TikiWiki is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution as described in GLSA 200507-01.
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