CVE-2011-5219

medium

Published 2012-10-25 · 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 examples/show_code.php in mPDF 5.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the filename 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-18248 webapps php

ZadYree · 2011-12-16

mPDF 5.3 - File Disclosure

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mpdf1	mpdf	`{"endIncluding":"5.3"}`
mpdf1	mpdf	`5.2`

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.