iJoomla News Portal "controller" Local File Inclusion Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39289

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39289/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in the iJoomla News Portal
component for Joomla!, which can be exploited by malicious people to
disclose sensitive information.

Input passed via the "controller" parameter to index.php (when
"option" is set to "com_news_portal") is not properly verified before
being used to include files. This can be exploited to include
arbitrary files from local resources via directory traversal
sequences and URL-encoded NULL bytes.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly verified.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
AntiSecurity