CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-6659
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-04-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
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 configurations
• simple machines simple machines forum 1.0.5
• simple machines simple machines forum 1.0.6
• simple machines simple machines forum 1.0.7
• simple machines simple machines forum 1.0.11
• simple machines simple machines forum 1.0.12
• simple machines simple machines forum 1.1.1
• simple machines simple machines forum 1.1.2
• simple machines simple machines forum 1.1.3
• simple machines simple machines forum 1.1.4
• simple machines simple machines forum 1.1.5
• simple machines simple machines forum 1.1.6
• simple machines simple machines forum 1.1 rc1
• simple machines simple machines forum 1.1 rc2
• simple machines simple machines forum 1.1 rc3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/50072 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32516 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32139 Exploit
- http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=272861.0 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7011 www.exploit-db.com
- http://osvdb.org/50072 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32516 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32139 Exploit
- http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=272861.0 Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7011 www.exploit-db.com