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CVE-2007-5823

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-11-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in forum.php in Ben Ng Scribe 0.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the username parameter in a Register action.

Affected products

• Scribe: 0.2

References

• http://osvdb.org/39063
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3339
• http://www.inj3ct-it.org/exploit/scribe.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483183/100/0/threaded
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4596
• http://osvdb.org/39063
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3339
• http://www.inj3ct-it.org/exploit/scribe.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483183/100/0/threaded
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4596

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