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Path Traversal occurrences in Impresscms
ImpressCMS before 1.4.3 allows libraries/image-editor/image-edit.php image_temp Directory Traversal. (2022-03-28, CVE-2021-26601)
ImpressCMS before 1.4.2 allows unauthenticated remote code execution via ...../// directory traversal in origName or imageName, leading to unsafe interaction with the CKEditor processImage.php script. The payload may be placed in PHP_SESSION_UPLOAD_PROGRESS when the PHP installation supports upload_progress. (2022-02-14, CVE-2022-24977)
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).