PT-2009-2311 · Pluck · Pluck

Alfons Luja · Published 2009-07-02 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2008-6842

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Pluck version 4.6.1

Description: A directory traversal issue exists, allowing remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files. This is achieved by using a .. (dot dot) in the post parameter.

Recommendations: For Pluck version 4.6.1, consider restricting access to the module pages site.php file in the data/modules/blog directory until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the post parameter with untrusted input.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-6842

Affected Products

Pluck

References · 6

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/34207 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/8271 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6842 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34415 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49378 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-6842 · Note