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Path Traversal occurrences in Soy Cms
The SOY Inquiry component of SOY CMS is affected by Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Remote Code Execution (RCE). The vulnerability affects versions 2.0.0.3 and earlier of SOY Inquiry. This allows remote attackers to force the administrator to edit files once the administrator loads a specially crafted webpage. An administrator must be logged in for exploitation to be possible. This issue is fixed in SOY Inquiry version 2.0.0.4 and included in SOY CMS 3.0.2.328. (2020-09-17, CVE-2020-15182)
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).