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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2011-3744

Medium
6.9/10

Summary

HTML Purifier contains an information disclosure vulnerability that allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by directly requesting certain ".php" files. This can reveal the installation path in error messages, as shown with "tests/PHPT/Reporter/SimpleTest.php" and similar files.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • 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