CVE-2008-5604

MEDIUM 6.8CVE-2008-5604 · Published 16/12/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-5604 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability affecting my simple forum (drennansoft).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.4%, higher than 84.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
my simple forum drennansoft	`= 3.0= 4.1`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in My Simple Forum 3.0 and 4.1, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the action parameter.

References

osvdb.org/50433
secunia.com/advisories/32984 · Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com/securityalert/4765
securityfocus.com/bid/32643
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47097
exploit-db.com/exploits/7342

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