CVE-2008-2520

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-06-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in BigACE 2.4, when register_globals is enabled, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the (1) GLOBALS[_BIGACE][DIR][addon] parameter to (a) addon/smarty/plugins/function.captcha.php and (b) system/classes/sql/AdoDBConnection.php; and the (2) GLOBALS[_BIGACE][DIR][admin] parameter to (c) item_information.php and (d) jstree.php in system/application/util/, and (e) system/admin/plugins/menu/menuTree/plugin.php, different vectors than CVE-2006-4423.

Affected products

Bigace: 2.4

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30183
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29157
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42343
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5596
http://secunia.com/advisories/30183
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29157
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42343
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5596

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