CVE-2008-4712

MEDIUM 6.8CVE-2008-4712 · Published 23/10/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-4712 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability affecting lnblog (lnblog).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.9%, higher than 79.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
lnblog lnblog	`= 0.8.0= 0.8.1= 0.8.2≤ 0.9.0`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in pages/showblog.php in LnBlog 0.9.0 and earlier, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the plugin parameter.

References

secunia.com/advisories/32032 · Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com/securityalert/4481
securityfocus.com/bid/31459 · Exploit
exploit-db.com/exploits/6601

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