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    1 vulnerability by phphtmledit

    CVE-2021-47751 (GCVE-0-2021-47751)

    Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-13 22:51 – Updated: 2026-05-14 02:06
    VLAI
    Title
    CuteEditor for PHP 6.6 - Directory Traversal
    Summary
    CuteEditor for PHP (now referred to as Rich Text Editor) 6.6 contains a directory traversal vulnerability in the browse template feature that allows attackers to write files to arbitrary web root directories. Attackers can exploit the ServerMapPath() function by renaming uploaded HTML files using directory traversal sequences to write files outside the intended template directory.
    Severity
    5.3 (Medium)
    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
    7.5 (High)
    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
    SSVC
    Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
    CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
    CWE
    • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
    Assigner
    References
    Impacted products
    Vendor Product Version
    Phphtmledit CuteEditor Affected: 0 , ≤ 6.6 (custom)
    		Create a notification for this product.
    Date Public
    2022-08-01 00:00
    Credits
    Stefan Hesselman
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