CVE-2008-6659

Simple Machines Forum vulnerability

CVSS

5.5

EPSS

3.3%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.0 before 1.0.15 and 1.1 before 1.1.7 allows remote authenticated users to configure arbitrary local files for execution via directory traversal sequences in the value of the theme_dir field during a jsoption action, related to Sources/QueryString.php and Sources/Themes.php, as demonstrated by a local .gif file in attachments/ with PHP code that was uploaded through a profile2 action to index.php.

Affected vendor

Simple Machines

Affected product

Simple Machines Forum

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2009-04-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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