CVE-2012-1467

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2012-1467 · Published 06/09/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-1467 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting open journal systems (pkp).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.0%, higher than 87.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
open journal systems pkp	`≤ 2.3.6`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the iBrowser plugin library, as used in Open Journal Systems before 2.3.7, allow remote authenticated users to (1) delete or (2) rename arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the param parameter to lib/pkp/lib/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/ibrowser/scripts/rfiles.php.

References

pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php
htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23079 · Exploit

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