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CVE-2019-9060

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-09-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

An issue was discovered in CMS Made Simple 2.2.8. It is possible to achieve unauthenticated path traversal in the CGExtensions module (in the file action.setdefaulttemplate.php) with the m1_filename parameter; and through the action.showmessage.php file, it is possible to read arbitrary file content (by using that path traversal with m1_prefname set to cg_errormsg and m1_resettodefault=1).

Affected products

• CMS Made Simple: 2.2.8

References

• http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/project/changelog/5819
• https://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=80285
• https://newsletter.cmsmadesimple.org/w/89247Qog4jCRCuRinvhsofwg
• https://www.cmsmadesimple.org/2019/03/Announcing-CMS-Made-Simple-v2.2.10-Spuzzum
• http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/project/changelog/5819
• https://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=80285
• https://newsletter.cmsmadesimple.org/w/89247Qog4jCRCuRinvhsofwg
• https://www.cmsmadesimple.org/2019/03/Announcing-CMS-Made-Simple-v2.2.10-Spuzzum

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