CVE-2008-5272

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-11-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Fred Stuurman SyndeoCMS 2.6.0 allow remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the template parameter to (1) starnet/editors/fckeditor/studenteditor.php; (2) starnet/modules/sn_news/edit_content.php, reached through starnet/index.php; and (3) starnet/modules/sn_newsletter/edit_content.php, reached through starnet/index.php.

Affected products

Syndeocms: 2.6.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30602
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4660
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29644
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42969
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5779
http://secunia.com/advisories/30602
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4660
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29644
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42969
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5779

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