VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-5979

medium
Published 2013-10-02 · 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 Spring Signage Xibo 1.2.x before 1.2.3 and 1.4.x before 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the p parameter 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-26955 webapps php
Mahendra · 2013-07-18

Xibo 1.2.2/1.4.1 - 'index.php?p' Directory Traversal

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
xibosignagexibo1.2.0
xibosignagexibo1.2.1
xibosignagexibo1.2.2
xibosignagexibo1.4.0
xibosignagexibo1.4.1

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.