CVE-2012-4997

high

Published 2012-09-19 · 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

8.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in acp/index.php in AneCMS allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the p 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-18559 webapps php

I2sec-Jong Hwan Park · 2012-03-04

AneCMS 2e2c583 - Local File Inclusion

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
anecms	anecms	`-`
anecms	anecms	`2e2c583`

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.