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Virginity Security Advisory 2003-001

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             DATE : 2003-08-13 03:11 GMT

             TYPE : remote

VERSIONS AFFECTED : <== hola-cms-1.2.9-10 (http://holacms.drunkencat.net/)

           AUTHOR : Virginity

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Description:



I found a security bug in Hola CMS with which you can get the admin 

password.

The bug is in the htmltags.php - the file was written to edit an internal 

file.

The Problem is htmltags.php doesn't check if you are

logged in as administrator so you can include the unprotected passwordfile

and htmltags.php shows the password file which you can edit freely or just

steal the password to gain possible acces to the whole server.



Author of the Software has been notified.



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Example:

http://www.targetexample.com/path_of_hola/admin/cms/htmltags.php?

datei=./sec/data.php



shows you the username and password of the administrator!





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Solution:



Put the following code at the beginning of htmltags.php



<?

 include_once('./sec/data.php');

 include_once('./sec/auth.php');

?>





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