CVE-2009-5089

medium
Published 2011-09-12 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.3

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in IdeaCart 0.02 and 0.02a allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the page parameter.

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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-8049 webapps php verified
nuclear ยท 2009-02-13

ideacart 0.02 - Local File Inclusion / SQL Injection

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ideacartideacart0.02
ideacartideacart0.02a

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.