Coppermine Photo Gallery up to 1.6.27 path traversal

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Coppermine Photo Gallery up to 1.6.27. The affected element is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to path traversal. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-3013. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Coppermine Photo Gallery up to 1.6.27. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects 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. CVE summarizes:

Coppermine Photo Gallery in versions 1.6.09 through 1.6.27 is vulnerable to path traversal. Unauthenticated remote attacker is able to exploit a vulnerable endpoint and construct payloads that allow to read content of any file accessible by the the web server process.This issue was fixed in version 1.6.28.

The weakness was disclosed by Jan Paweł Klim. The advisory is available at cert.pl. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-3013 since 02/23/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.6.28 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com.

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Type

• Photo Gallery Software

Name

• Coppermine Photo Gallery

Version

• 1.6.0
• 1.6.1
• 1.6.2
• 1.6.3
• 1.6.4
• 1.6.5
• 1.6.6
• 1.6.7
• 1.6.8
• 1.6.9
• 1.6.10
• 1.6.11
• 1.6.12
• 1.6.13
• 1.6.14
• 1.6.15
• 1.6.16
• 1.6.17
• 1.6.18
• 1.6.19
• 1.6.20
• 1.6.21
• 1.6.22
• 1.6.23
• 1.6.24
• 1.6.25
• 1.6.26
• 1.6.27

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• open-source

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