CVE-2010-2797

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-10-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/translation.functions.php in CMS Made Simple before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the default_cms_lang parameter to an admin script, as demonstrated by admin/addbookmark.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-5642.

Affected products

CMS Made Simple: through 1.6.8; 1.0, 1.0-beta1, 1.0-beta2, 1.0-beta3, 1.0-beta4, 1.0-beta5 (+50)

References

http://cross-site-scripting.blogspot.com/2010/07/cms-made-simple-18-local-file-inclusion.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/40031
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/2010/07/3/announcing-cms-made-simple-1-8-1-mankara/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/01/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/02/8
http://cross-site-scripting.blogspot.com/2010/07/cms-made-simple-18-local-file-inclusion.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/40031
http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/2010/07/3/announcing-cms-made-simple-1-8-1-mankara/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/01/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/02/8

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