CVE-2014-9261

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2014-9261 · Published 23/03/2015 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-9261 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting codoforum (codologic).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 9.0%, higher than 95.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
codoforum codologic	`= 2.5.1`	No fix yet

Description

The sanitize function in Codoforum 2.5.1 does not properly implement filtering for directory traversal sequences, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the path parameter to index.php.

References

osvdb.org/show/osvdb/119412
packetstormsecurity.com/files/130739/Codoforum-2.5.1-Arbitrary-File-Download.html · Exploit
security.szurek.pl/codoforum-251-arbitrary-file-download.html · Exploit
exploit-db.com/exploits/36320 · Exploit
codoforum.com/documentation/roadmap · Vendor Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

codoforum

codologic

= 2.5.1

No fix yet

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