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Path Traversal occurrences in Hongcms
HongCMS 3.0.0 allows arbitrary file deletion via the component /admin/index.php/template/ajax?action=delete. (2022-04-26, CVE-2022-28523)
Path Traversal in HongCMS v4.0.0 allows remote attackers to view, edit, and delete arbitrary files via a crafted POST request to the component "/hcms/admin/index.php/language/ajax." (2021-05-18, CVE-2020-18178)
HongCMS 3.0.0 allows arbitrary file deletion via a ../ in the file parameter to admin/index.php/database/ajax?action=delete, a similar issue to CVE-2018-16774. (If the attacker deletes config.php and visits install/index.php, they can reinstall the product.) (2019-09-25, CVE-2019-16867)
HongCMS 3.0.0 allows arbitrary file read and write operations via a ../ in the filename parameter to the admin/index.php/language/edit URI. (2019-02-17, CVE-2019-8407)
HongCMS 3.0.0 allows arbitrary file deletion via a ../ in the file parameter to admin/index.php/language/ajax?action=delete. (2018-09-10, CVE-2018-16774)
Why Path Traversal can be dangerous
Relative Path Confusion means that your web server is configured to serve responses to ambiguous URLs. This configuration can possibly cause confusion about the correct relative path for the URL. It is also an issue of resources, such as images, styles etc., which are specified in the response using relative path, not the absolute URL.
If the web browser permits to parse "cross-content" response, the attacker may be able to fool the web browser into interpreting HTML into other content types, which can then lead to a cross site scripting attack (link do XSS).