PT-2011-4634 · Html Purifier · Html Purifier

Published 2011-09-23 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2011-3744

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HTML Purifier version 4.2.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to a .php file. This is achieved by revealing the installation path in an error message. For example, this can be demonstrated by accessing tests/PHPT/Reporter/SimpleTest.php and certain other files.

Recommendations For HTML Purifier version 4.2.0, consider restricting access to sensitive .php files, such as tests/PHPT/Reporter/SimpleTest.php, to prevent the disclosure of installation paths.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-3744

GHSA-JW86-5CJF-MV79

Affected Products

Html Purifier

References · 9

• 🔥 http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/htmlpurifier-4.2.0 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3744 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-3744 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-jw86-5cjf-mv79 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2011-3744 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-3744 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/ezyang/htmlpurifier · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/6 · Note
• http://code.google.com/p/inspathx/source/browse/trunk/paths_vuln/%21_README · Note