A vulnerability was found in Textpattern CMS 4.8.8 (Content Management System). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the component Plugin Upload Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Directory Traversal vulnerability in Textpattern CMS v4.8.8 allows a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code and gain access to sensitive information via the plugin Upload function.

The weakness was disclosed 08/07/2023 as 172967. The advisory is available at packetstormsecurity.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2023-36220 since 06/21/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries VDB-20561, VDB-116242, VDB-211955 and VDB-212583 are pretty similar.

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