CVE-2008-2840

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-06-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Exero CMS 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 allow remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the theme parameter to (1) custompage.php, (2) errors/404.php, (3) members/memberslist.php, (4) members/profile.php, (5) news/fullview.php, (6) news/index.php, (7) nopermission.php, (8) usercp/avatar.php, or (9) usercp/editpassword.php in themes/Default/. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Exerocms Exero Cms: 1.0.0, 1.0.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30711
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=607502
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29788
http://secunia.com/advisories/30711
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=607502
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29788

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