CVE-2010-5094

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The deleteinstallfiles function in control/ContentController.php in SilverStripe 2.3.x before 2.3.7 does not require ADMIN permissions, which allows remote attackers to delete index.php and "disrupt mod_rewrite-less URL routing."

Affected products

Silverstripe: 2.3.0, 2.3.0-rc1, 2.3.0-rc2, 2.3.0-rc3, 2.3.1, 2.3.1-rc1 (+6)

References

http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/trunk/changelogs//2.3.7
http://open.silverstripe.org/changeset/101227
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/01/3
http://www.silverstripe.org/security-releases
http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/trunk/changelogs//2.3.7
http://open.silverstripe.org/changeset/101227
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/30/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/01/3
http://www.silverstripe.org/security-releases

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