CVE 8.3 HIGH

Redaxo has Path Traversal in Backup Addon Leading to Arbitrary File Read_CVE-2026-21857

8.3 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N

Description

REDAXO is a PHP-based content management system. Prior to version 5.20.2, authenticated users with backup permissions can read arbitrary files within the webroot via path traversal in the Backup addon's file export functionality. The Backup addon does not validate the `EXPDIR` POST parameter against the UI-generated allowlist of permitted directories. An attacker can supply relative paths containing `../` sequences (or even absolute paths inside the document root) to include any readable file in the generated `.tar.gz` archive. Version 5.20.2 fixes this issue.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-21857
Source GitHub_M
Published Jan 7, 2026 at 22:32

Affected Product

Vendor redaxo
Product redaxo
Version < 5.20.2
Affected Versions redaxo redaxo < 5.20.2

CWE Classification

References

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