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PayPal Cart Arbitrary File Inclusion Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA9983
Release Date: 2003-10-09
Popularity: 4,603 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:PayPal Cart
PayPal Store Front 3.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in PayPal Cart and PayPal Store Front, which can be exploited by malicious people to include arbitrary code.

The problem is that the "page" parameter isn't properly verified in "index.php". This can be exploited to supply paths to arbitrary files locally and remotely, which may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability has been reported for PayPal StoreFront 3.0 and has furthermore been confirmed in PayPal Cart (Free).

Solution:
Edit the source code so that the input is properly verified.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Astharot

Original Advisory:
http://www.zone-h.org/en/advisories/read/id=3231/


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