CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-6659

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2009-04-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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