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Security Announcement
5 November 2003
Recently two vulnerabilities have been found in older versions of PHPlist. Everyone is urgently advised to upgrade to the latest release.
Affected Versions: any version before 2.6.4
Affected Versions: any version before 2.6.4
The first vulnerability allows anyone to access the details of your users. This causes a breach of privacy as well as can be exploited by originators of unsolicited emails.
The second vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the server PHPlist is hosted on. This is a major security breach and should be avoided at all cost. This vulnerability can be avoided by adding the following content in a file called ".htaccess" in the admin directory of PHPlist.
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allow from all