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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-27916

Prior to the patched version, logged in users of Mautic are vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal/Arbitrary File Deletion. Regardless of the level of access the Mautic user had, they could delete files other than those in the media folders such as system files, libraries or other important files. This vulnerability exists in the implementation of the GrapesJS builder in Mautic.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:15 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-27916

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 Sept 2024, 15:15 UTC

Prior to the patched version, logged in users of Mautic are vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal/Arbitrary File Deletion. Regardless of the level of access the Mautic user had, they could delete files other than those in the media folders such as system files, libraries or other important files. This vulnerability exists in the implementation of the GrapesJS builder in Mautic.

osv:CVE-2021-27916
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "Prior to the patched version, logged in users of Mautic are vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal/Arbitrary File Deletion. Regardless of the level of access the Mautic user had, they could delete files other than those in the media folders such as system files, libraries or other important files. This vulnerability exists in the implementation of the GrapesJS builder in Mautic.",
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