CVE-2010-5281

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-11-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in ibrowser.php in the CMScout 2.09 IBrowser TinyMCE Plugin 1.4.1, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the lang parameter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Net4Visions Ibrowser: 1.4.1

References

http://packetstormsecurity.org/1009-exploits/cmscout209-lfi.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/41634
http://www.johnleitch.net/Vulnerabilities/CMScout.2.09.IBrowser.TinyMCE.Plugin.Local.File.Inclusion/33
http://www.osvdb.org/68247
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62066
http://packetstormsecurity.org/1009-exploits/cmscout209-lfi.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/41634
http://www.johnleitch.net/Vulnerabilities/CMScout.2.09.IBrowser.TinyMCE.Plugin.Local.File.Inclusion/33
http://www.osvdb.org/68247
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62066

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