CVE-2012-6038

medium
Published 2012-11-26 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

admin/core/admin_func.php in razorCMS before 1.2.1 does not properly restrict access to certain administrator directories and files, which allows remote authenticated users to read, edit, rename, move, copy and delete files via the (1) dir parameter in a fileman or (2) filemanview action. NOTE: this issue has been referred to as a "path traversal."

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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-18344 webapps php verified
chap0 ยท 2012-01-10

RazorCMS 1.2 - Directory Traversal

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

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
razorcmsrazorcms{"endIncluding":"1.2"}
razorcmsrazorcms0.2
razorcmsrazorcms0.3
razorcmsrazorcms0.4
razorcmsrazorcms1.0
razorcmsrazorcms1.1

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.