The Coppermine development team is releasing a security update for Coppermine in order to counter a recently discovered vulnerability. It is important that all users who run version cpg1.4.25 or older update to this latest version as soon as possible.
How to update:
Users running versions prior to 1.4.26 should update immediately by
downloading the latest version from the
download page and following
the upgrade steps in the documentation.
For those who want to apply the vulnerability fix manually to their Coppermine installation, open
upload.php, find
echo "<tr><td>{$URI_failure_array[$i]['failure_ordinal']} {$URI_failure_array[$i]['URI_name']}</td><td>{$URI_failure_array[$i]['error_code']}</td></tr>";
and replace with
echo "<tr><td>{$URI_failure_array[$i]['failure_ordinal']} ".htmlentities($URI_failure_array[$i]['URI_name'])."</td><td>{$URI_failure_array[$i]['error_code']}</td></tr>";
Support:
If you have problems with this update, please use the
Update support board. Do not post your issues to this announcement thread - your post will be deleted without notice.
Why was cpg1.4.26 released?The release covers a recently discovered input validation vulnerability that allows (if unpatched) a malevolent visitor to include own script routines (
thread).
Additionally, cpg1.4.26 includes fixes for the following non-security related issues:
- Edited vBulletin bridge to reflect changes from vB3.x to vB4.x
- Added check to plugin manager for version requirements - backported feature from cpg1.5.x (thread)
- Updated Italian Language file
- Fixed permission check in crop/rotate wrongly denying access
- Fixed caching issues with xp publisher
- Fixed issue with creating albums in xp publisher with MySQL's strict mode enabled
- Fixed bridge issue when creating albums in xp publisher
- Updated German language files (added missing strings)
- Updated MyBB bridge to 1.4
- Updated Czech language file (user contribution)
- Updated Slovak language file (user contribution)
- Updated Italian language file (user contribution)
Thanks to
Aditya Mooley for coming up with the fix, and thanks to Ivan Buetler and the GESEC Team for discovering the vulnerability.
Thanks,
The Coppermine Team
