CVE-2009-4886

medium

Published 2010-06-11 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in phpCommunity 2 2.1.8 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) file parameter to module/admin/files/show_file.php and the (2) path parameter to module/admin/files/show_source.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-8185 webapps php verified

Salvatore Fresta · 2009-03-09

phpCommunity 2.1.8 - SQL Injection / Directory Traversal / Cross-Site Scripting

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
bernhard_frohlich	phpcom	`2.1.8`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.