VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-4450

medium
Published 2012-09-05 · 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
7.4

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in handlers/files.xml/files.xml.php in WikkaWiki 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 allows remote attackers to read or delete arbitrary files via a non-initial .. (dot dot) in the file parameter, as demonstrated by the /../../wikka.config.php pathname in a download action.

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-18177 webapps php
EgiX · 2011-11-30

WikkaWiki 1.3.2 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wikkawikiwikkawiki1.3.1
wikkawikiwikkawiki1.3.2

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.