CVE-2018-16974

critical

Description

An issue was discovered in Elefant CMS before 2.0.7. There is a PHP Code Execution Vulnerability in apps/filemanager/upload/drop.php by using /filemanager/api/rm/.htaccess to remove the .htaccess file, and then using a filename that ends in .php followed by space characters (for bypassing the blacklist).

References

https://github.com/jbroadway/elefant/releases/tag/elefant_2_0_7_stable

https://github.com/jbroadway/elefant/issues/287

https://github.com/jbroadway/elefant/commit/49ba8cc24e9f009ce30d2c2eb9eefeb9be4ce1d0

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-09-12

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00273