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CVE-2014-9261

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-03-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

The sanitize function in Codoforum 2.5.1 does not properly implement filtering for directory traversal sequences, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the path parameter to index.php.

Affected products

• Codologic Codoforum: 2.5.1

References

• http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/119412
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130739/Codoforum-2.5.1-Arbitrary-File-Download.html
• http://security.szurek.pl/codoforum-251-arbitrary-file-download.html
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36320
• https://codoforum.com/documentation/roadmap
• http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/119412
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130739/Codoforum-2.5.1-Arbitrary-File-Download.html
• http://security.szurek.pl/codoforum-251-arbitrary-file-download.html
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36320
• https://codoforum.com/documentation/roadmap

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