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Path Traversal occurrences in Phpkb
Path Traversal in admin/assetmanager/assetmanager.php (vulnerable function saved in admin/assetmanager/functions.php) in Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language 9 allows attackers to list the files that are stored on the webserver using a dot-dot-slash sequence (../) via the POST parameter inpCurrFolder. (2020-03-12, CVE-2020-10459)
Path Traversal in admin/download.php in Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language 9 allows remote attackers to download files from the server using a dot-dot-slash sequence (../) via the GET parameter file. (2020-03-12, CVE-2020-10387)
Path Traversal in admin/imagepaster/image-renaming.php in Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language 9 allows attackers to rename any file on the webserver using a dot-dot-slash sequence (../) via the POST parameter imgName (for the new name) and imgUrl (for the current file to be renamed). (2020-03-12, CVE-2020-10457)
Path Traversal in admin/imagepaster/operations.php in Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language 9 allows attackers to delete any folder on the webserver using a dot-dot-slash sequence (../) via the GET parameter crdir, when the GET parameter action is set to df, causing a Denial of Service. (2020-03-12, CVE-2020-10458)
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).