Directory traversal vulnerability in cmsimple/cms.php in CMSimple 3.1, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to…

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in cmsimple/cms.php in CMSimple 3.1, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the sl parameter to index.php. NOTE: this can be leveraged for remote file execution by including adm.php and then invoking the upload action. NOTE: on 20080601, the vendor patched 3.1 without changing the version number.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

18.8% · top 2.7% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-22 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• 30463 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 45881 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• cmsimple-index-file-include(42792) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 29450 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 5700 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
• cmsimple-index-file-upload(42793) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• http://www.cmsimple.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 09:05 UTC.