CVE-2011-4813

medium

Published 2011-12-14 · 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

Directory traversal vulnerability in clientarea.php in WHMCompleteSolution (WHMCS) 3.x.x allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an invalid action and a ../ (dot dot slash) in the templatefile 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 — 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-18081 webapps php

red virus · 2011-11-04

WHMCompleteSolution (WHMCS) 3.x - 'clientarea.php' Local File Disclosure

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
whmcs	whmcompletesolution	`3.0.0`

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.