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CVE-2018-16831

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Smarty before 3.1.33-dev-4 allows attackers to bypass the trusted_dir protection mechanism via a file:./../ substring in an include statement.

Affected products

• Smarty: from 3.0.0 through 3.1.32

References

• https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/486
• https://github.com/smarty-php/smarty/issues/486

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