Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-1821

Title: Modxcms Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2006-1821

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Apr 18, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.4 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.97%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-1821: Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in ModX 0.9.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) sequence and trailing NULL (%00) byte in the id parameter.

Impacted Vendors

modxcms 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/19645 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015940 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431010/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17533 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1383 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25895 http://secunia.com/advisories/19645 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015940 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431010/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17533 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1383 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25895

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.4

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-1821 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27649

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 18, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.