CVE-2008-6490

HIGH 7.5CVE-2008-6490 · Published 19/03/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-6490 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting flaber (flysforum).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.2%, higher than 91.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
flaber flysforum	`≤ 1.1`	No fix yet

Description

function/update_xml.php in FLABER 1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files by specifying the target filename in the target_file parameter. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by overwriting a PHP file, as demonstrated using function/upload_file.php.

References

vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1163/references · Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41715
exploit-db.com/exploits/5407

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