VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-6500

medium
Published 2013-01-12 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in download.lib.php in Pragyan CMS 3.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the fileget parameter in a profile action to index.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18347 webapps php
Or4nG.M4N · 2012-01-10

Pragyan CMS 3.0 - Remote File Disclosure

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
pragyan_cms_projectpragyan_cms{"endIncluding":"3.0"}
pragyan_cms_projectpragyan_cms2.5.4
pragyan_cms_projectpragyan_cms2.5.9
pragyan_cms_projectpragyan_cms2.5.12
pragyan_cms_projectpragyan_cms2.5.13
pragyan_cms_projectpragyan_cms2.5.14
pragyan_cms_projectpragyan_cms2.6.1
pragyan_cms_projectpragyan_cms2.6.2
pragyan_cms_projectpragyan_cms2.6.3
pragyan_cms_projectpragyan_cms2.6.4

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.