CVE-2011-3733

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-09-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Elgg 1.7.6 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to a .php file, which reveals the installation path in an error message, as demonstrated by vendors/simpletest/test/visual_test.php and certain other files.

Affected products

Elgg: 1.7.6

References

http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/%21_README
http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/elgg-1.7.6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/6
http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/%21_README
http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/elgg-1.7.6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/6

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