CVE-2012-6522

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2012-6522 · Published 31/01/2013 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-6522 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting w-cms (w-cms).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.0%, higher than 90.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
w-cms w-cms	`= 2.01`	No fix yet

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the getContent function in codes/wcms.php in w-CMS 2.01 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the p parameter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

References

secunia.com/advisories/47527 · Vendor Advisory
exploit-db.com/exploits/18348 · Exploit
exploit-db.com/exploits/18711 · Exploit
osvdb.org/80974
securityfocus.com/bid/51359 · Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72302

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