CVE-2007-5156

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-10-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in editor/filemanager/upload/php/upload.php in FCKeditor, as used in SiteX CMS 0.7.3.beta, La-Nai CMS, Syntax CMS, Cardinal Cms, and probably other products, allows remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code via a file whose name contains ".php." and has an unknown extension, which is recognized as a .php file by the Apache HTTP server, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-0658 and CVE-2006-2529.

Affected products

Cardinal Cms Project Cardinal Cms: 1.2
Redlinesoft Lanai Cms: through 1.2.16
Sitex Cms Project Sitex Cms: 0.7.3-beta
Syntax Cms Project Syntax Cms: through 1.3

References

http://dev.fckeditor.net/changeset/973
http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/1325
http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/30677.php
http://secunia.com/advisories/27123
http://secunia.com/advisories/27174
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3182
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=743930
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=546000
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480830/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29422
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30677
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3464

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