mintplex-labs anything-llm up to 1.9.x path traversal

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in mintplex-labs anything-llm up to 1.9.x. This affects an unknown part. This manipulation causes path traversal. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2026-24478. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in mintplex-labs anything-llm up to 1.9.x. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. 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. The summary by CVE is:

AnythingLLM is an application that turns pieces of content into context that any LLM can use as references during chatting. Prior to version 1.10.0, a critical Path Traversal vulnerability in the DrupalWiki integration allows a malicious admin (or an attacker who can convince an admin to configure a malicious DrupalWiki URL) to write arbitrary files to the server. This can lead to Remote Code Execution (RCE) by overwriting configuration files or writing executable scripts. Version 1.10.0 fixes the issue.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2026-24478 since 01/23/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.10.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at CNNVD (CNNVD-202601-4428). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Artificial Intelligence Software

Vendor

• mintplex-labs

Name

• anything-llm

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9

Website

• Product: https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm/

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