CVE-2008-7055

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-08-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

module.php in ezContents 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to bypass the directory traversal protection mechanism to include and execute arbitrary local files via "....//" (doubled dot dot slash) sequences in the link parameter, which is not properly filtered using the str_replace function.

Affected products

Visualshapers Ezcontents: 2.0.3

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31606
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495705/100/100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30821
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44663
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6301
http://secunia.com/advisories/31606
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495705/100/100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30821
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44663
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6301

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