High
Security advisory
The Pixidou Image Editor in Exponent CMS prior to v2.3.9 patch 2 could be used to upload a malicious file to any folder on the site via a cpi directory traversal.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-7452
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Pixidou Image Editor in Exponent CMS prior to v2.3.9 patch 2 could be used to upload a malicious file to any folder on the site via a cpi directory traversal.
osv:CVE-2016-7452
Complete source record
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