ZH2003-18SA (security advisory): News Wizard Path Disclosure Published: 10 august 2003 Released: 10 august 2003 Name: News Wizard Affected Systems: 2.0 Issue: Remote attackers can know the path of the site Author: G00db0y@zone-h.org Vendor: http://www.imediasoftware.com/products/newswizard/ Description *********** Zone-h Security Team has discovered a flaw in News Wizard v2.0 (and older versions?) With News Wizard 2can you create, update and delete your news articles right from your web browser." Details ******* It's possible to make a malformed http request in News Wizard and in doing so trigger an error. The resulting error message will disclose potentially sensitive installation path information to the remote attacker. Example: http://www.site.com/path/nw/article.php?id=' Solution: ********* The vendor has been contacted and a patch is not yet produced. Suggestions: ************ Filter all files. G00db0y - www.zone-h.org admin Original advisory here: http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=2862/
