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medium 4.9

CVE-2020-10387 json

Path Traversal in admin/download.php in Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language 9 allows remote attackers to download files from the server us…

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-2840

cvss
4.9
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.8%
EPSS 7.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

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Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-48220)

Exploit prediction

7.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-48220 PHPKB Multi-Language 9 - Authenticated Directory Traversal webapps, 2020-03-16
  • antoniocannito.it http://antoniocannito.it/?p=137#afd referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • antoniocannito.it https://antoniocannito.it/phpkb1#authenticated-arbitrary-file-download-cve-2020-10387 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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