CVE-2006-5731

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-11-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in classes/index.php in Lithium CMS 4.04c and earlier allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the siteconf[curl] parameter, as demonstrated by a POST to news/comment.php containing PHP code, which is stored under db/comments/news/ and included by classes/index.php.

Affected products

Lithium Cms: through 4.04c

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22593
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20871
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4361
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29966
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2702
http://secunia.com/advisories/22593
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20871
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4361
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29966
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2702

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