Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-7243

Title: Modxcms Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-7243.

CWE Category CWE-352

Published Date Sep 17, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.63%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-7243: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in page 34 in MODx CMS 0.9.6.1 and 0.9.6.1p1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of other users for requests that modify passwords via manager/index.php. NOTE: due to the lack of details, it is not clear whether this is related to CVE-2008-5941.

Impacted Vendors

modxcms 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/28840 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487696/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27672 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40378 http://secunia.com/advisories/28840 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487696/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27672 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40378

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-7243 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 17, 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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.