TITLE:
PHP-Blogger Disclosure of Sensitive Information Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13665

VERIFY ADVISORY:
https://secunia.com/advisories/13665/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
PHP-Blogger 1.x
https://secunia.com/product/4456/

DESCRIPTION:
snilabs has reported a security issue in PHP-Blogger, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

The problem is that database files (.db) by default are stored inside
the web root and are not correctly protected against being accessed
directly on some server configurations. This can e.g. be exploited to
disclose the admin password.

NOTE: Systems running Apache with support for .htaccess files are not
affected by this issue.

SOLUTION:
Configure PHP-Blogger to access database files in a directory outside
the web root.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
snilabs

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