CVE-2008-6659

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-04-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.0 before 1.0.15 and 1.1 before 1.1.7 allows remote authenticated users to configure arbitrary local files for execution via directory traversal sequences in the value of the theme_dir field during a jsoption action, related to Sources/QueryString.php and Sources/Themes.php, as demonstrated by a local .gif file in attachments/ with PHP code that was uploaded through a profile2 action to index.php.

Affected products

Simple Machines Forum: 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.11, 1.0.12, 1.1.1 (+8)

References

http://osvdb.org/50072
http://secunia.com/advisories/32516
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32139
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=272861.0
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7011
http://osvdb.org/50072
http://secunia.com/advisories/32516
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32139
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=272861.0
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7011

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