Path Traversal in Simple Machines Forum
CVE-2008-6659
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.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.033 (88.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 88.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.033 · newest: 0.033 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Simple Machines Forum — versions 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32139 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/32516 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php (Vendor Advisory)
- osvdb.org/50072 (vdb-entry)
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7011 (exploit)