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Gentoo GLSA-200508-18 High: PhpWiki Command Execution Through XML-RPC

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Calendar Grey August 26, 2005
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Critical security flaw identified in PhpWiki through XML-RPC remote commands. Gentoo users advised to update their systems immediately.
PhpWiki includes PHP XML-RPC code which is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200508-18 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: PhpWiki: Arbitrary command execution through XML-RPC Date: August 26, 2005 Bugs: #102380 ID: 200508-18

Synopsis ======= PhpWiki includes PHP XML-RPC code which is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution.
Background ========= PhpWiki is an application that creates a web site where anyone can edit the pages through HTML forms.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apps/phpwiki < 1.3.10-r2 >= 1.3.10-r2
========== Earlier versions of PhpWiki contain an XML-RPC library that improperly handles XML-RPC requests and responses with malformed nested tags.
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