Medium
Security advisory
pretalx 2.3.1 before 2.3.2 allows path traversal in HTML export (a non-default feature). Organizers can trigger the overwriting (with the standard pretalx 404 page content) of an arbitrary file.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-28458
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 17:50 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
pretalx 2.3.1 before 2.3.2 allows path traversal in HTML export (a non-default feature). Organizers can trigger the overwriting (with the standard pretalx 404 page content) of an arbitrary file.
osv:CVE-2023-28458
Complete source record
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"https://pretalx.com/p/news/security-release-232/",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/28xxx/CVE-2023-28458.json",
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"https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/pretalx-vulnerabilities-how-to-get-accepted-at-every-conference/"
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