CVE-2005-1840

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-06-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in class.layout_phpcms.php in phpCMS 1.2.x before 1.2.1pl2 allows remote attackers to read or include arbitrary files, as demonstrated using a .. (dot dot) in the language parameter to parser.php.

Affected products

Phpcms: 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.1_p12, 1.2.1_pl1

References

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpcms/phpcms/parser/include/class.layout_phpcms.php?rev=1.12.2.37&view=markup
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111773774916907&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/15586
http://www.phpcms.de/download/index.en.html
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpcms/phpcms/parser/include/class.layout_phpcms.php?rev=1.12.2.37&view=markup
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111773774916907&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/15586
http://www.phpcms.de/download/index.en.html

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