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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2011-3718

Medium
5/10

Summary

CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) 1.9.2 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to a .php file, which reveals the installation path in an error message, as demonstrated by modules/TinyMCE/TinyMCE.module.php and certain other files. NOTE: this might overlap CVE-2007-5444.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published