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Path Traversal occurrences in Mopcms
A Path Traversal vulnerability was discovered in MOPCMS through 2018-11-30, leading to deletion of unexpected critical files. The exploitation point is in the "column management" function. The path added to the column is not verified. When a column is deleted by an attacker, the corresponding directory is deleted, as demonstrated by ./ to delete the entire web site. (2019-02-22, CVE-2019-9015)
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).