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CVE-2020-10457

Status: ModifiedLow (2.7)—

Path Traversal in admin/imagepaster/image-renaming.php in Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language 9 allows attackers to rename any file on the webserver using a dot-dot-slash sequence (../) via the POST parameter imgName (for the new name) and imgUrl (for the current file to be renamed).

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

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