What is CVE-2023-39528?

CVE-2023-39528 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Prestashop, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2023-08-07.

How severe is CVE-2023-39528?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Prestashop

CVE-2023-39528

PrestaShop is an open source e-commerce web application. Prior to version 8.1.1, the `displayAjaxEmailHTML` method can be used to read any file on the server, potentially even outside of the project if the server is not correctly configured. Version 8.1.1 contains a patch for this issue. There are no known workarounds.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2023-08-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.008 (53.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 53rd percentile — 53.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.008 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Prestashop — versions < 8.1.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop/security/advisories/GHSA-hpf4-v7v2-95p2 (Vendor Advisory)
github.com/PrestaShop/PrestaShop/commit/11de3a84322fa4ecd0995ac40d575db61804724c (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-39528?: CVE-2023-39528 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Prestashop, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.8/10. Published 2023-08-07.
How severe is CVE-2023-39528?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.8 out of 10.