CVE-2008-5171

CRITICAL 9.3CVE-2008-5171 · Published 19/11/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-5171 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability affecting phpblaster cms (phpblaster).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.3%, higher than 88.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
phpblaster cms phpblaster	`= 1.0`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in admin/minibb/index.php in phpBLASTER CMS 1.0 RC1, when register_globals is enabled, allow remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via directory traversal sequences in the (1) DB, (2) lang, and (3) skin parameters.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/29983
exploit-db.com/exploits/5952

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