CVE-2007-5491

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the translation module (translator.php) in SiteBar 3.3.8 allows remote authenticated users to chmod arbitrary files to 0777 via ".." sequences in the lang parameter.

Affected products

Sitebar: 3.3.8

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/27503
http://secunia.com/advisories/28008
http://teamforge.net/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/tags/release-3.3.9/doc/history.txt?view=markup
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1423
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-05.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26126
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3768
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195810
http://secunia.com/advisories/27503
http://secunia.com/advisories/28008
http://teamforge.net/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/tags/release-3.3.9/doc/history.txt?view=markup
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1423

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