Critical
Security advisory
In Expression Engine before 6.0.3, addonIcon in Addons/file/mod.file.php relies on the untrusted input value of input->get('file') instead of the fixed file names of icon.png and icon.svg.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-33199
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Expression Engine before 6.0.3, addonIcon in Addons/file/mod.file.php relies on the untrusted input value of input->get('file') instead of the fixed file names of icon.png and icon.svg.
osv:CVE-2021-33199
Complete source record
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