What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-6178

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-02-19 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/php/connector.php in FCKeditor 2.2, as used in Falt4 CMS, Nuke ET, and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by creating a file with PHP sequences preceded by a ZIP header, uploading this file via a FileUpload action with the application/zip content type, and then accessing this file via a direct request to the file in UserFiles/File/, probably a related issue to CVE-2005-4094. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Fckeditor: 2.0rc2, 2.0rc3, 2.2, 2.3beta, 2.4.3
• PHPList: 2.10.1, 2.10.2, 2.10.3, 2.10.4, 2.10.5, 2.10.6

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/33973
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31812
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0447
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48769
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8060
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33973
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31812
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0447
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48769
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8060

Get alerted when CVE-2008-6178 or the next vulnerability affects your stack