Is CVE-2018-25439 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2018-25439?

CVE-2018-25439 has a CVSS v3 severity of HIGH (7.5).

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CVE-2018-25439

Description

MetInfo CMS 6.0.0 before 6.1.1 contains a path traversal vulnerability in /include/thumb.php that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via the dir parameter. Attackers can send crafted requests with backslash sequences bypassing the str_replace filter to read files like config_db.php on Windows. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-10-14.