CVE-2006-1821

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-04-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in ModX 0.9.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence and trailing NULL (%00) byte in the id parameter.

Affected products

Modxcms: 0.9.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19645
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015940
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431010/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17533
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1383
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25895
http://secunia.com/advisories/19645
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015940
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431010/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17533
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1383
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25895

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