CVE-2006-5731

MEDIUM 6.4CVE-2006-5731 · Published 06/11/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-5731 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.4) vulnerability affecting lithium cms (lithium cms).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.4%, higher than 84.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
lithium cms lithium_cms	`≤ 4.04c`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in classes/index.php in Lithium CMS 4.04c and earlier allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the siteconf[curl] parameter, as demonstrated by a POST to news/comment.php containing PHP code, which is stored under db/comments/news/ and included by classes/index.php.

References

secunia.com/advisories/22593
securityfocus.com/bid/20871 · Exploit
vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4361
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29966
exploit-db.com/exploits/2702

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