CVE-2007-5823

HIGH 7.5CVE-2007-5823 · Published 05/11/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-5823 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting scribe (scribe).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.6%, higher than 85.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
scribe scribe	`= 0.2`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in forum.php in Ben Ng Scribe 0.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the username parameter in a Register action.

References

osvdb.org/39063
securityreason.com/securityalert/3339
inj3ct-it.org/exploit/scribe.txt · Exploit
securityfocus.com/archive/1/483183/100/0/threaded
exploit-db.com/exploits/4596

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