Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-7090

Title: Pligg Pligg Cms Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-7090

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Aug 26, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

8.30%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-7090: Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Pligg 9.9 and earlier allow remote attackers to (1) determine the existence of arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the $tb_url variable in trackback.php, or (2) include arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the template parameter to settemplate.php.

Impacted Vendors

pligg 1

Reference Links

http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00120-07312008 http://www.osvdb.org/50187 http://www.osvdb.org/50188 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494987/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30458 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44190 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44191 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6173 http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00120-07312008 http://www.osvdb.org/50187 http://www.osvdb.org/50188 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494987/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30458 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44190 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44191 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6173

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-7090 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6173

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 26, 2009 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:C/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.