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Path Traversal occurrences in Roxy Fileman
Roxy Fileman 1.4.5 for .NET is vulnerable to path traversal. A remote attacker can write uploaded files to arbitrary locations via the RENAMEFILE action. This can be leveraged for code execution by uploading a specially crafted Windows shortcut file and writing the file to the Startup folder (because an incomplete blacklist of file extensions allows Windows shortcut files to be uploaded). (2019-12-16, CVE-2019-19731)
Roxy Fileman 1.4.5 allows Directory Traversal in copydir.php, copyfile.php, and fileslist.php. (2019-03-21, CVE-2018-20525)
Roxy Fileman through v1.4.5 has Directory traversal via the php/download.php f parameter. (2018-06-07, CVE-2018-12042)
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).