CVE-2012-4878

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-09-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in controlcenter.php in FlatnuX CMS 2011 08.09.2 allows remote administrators to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the dir parameter in a contents/Files action.

Affected products

Flatnux: 2011-08-09-2

References

http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/111473/Flatnux-CMS-2011-08.09.2-CSRF-XSS-Directory-Traversal.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52846
http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=487
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74568
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/111473/Flatnux-CMS-2011-08.09.2-CSRF-XSS-Directory-Traversal.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52846
http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=487
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74568

Get alerted when CVE-2012-4878 or the next vulnerability affects your stack