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Local file Inclusion (LFI) in Forum Infusion via Directory Traversal

Type: advisorySources: OSV

There is insufficient sanitization of tainted file names that are directly concatenated with a path that is subsequently passed to a ‘require_once’ statement. This allows arbitrary files with the ‘.php’ extension for which the absolute path is known to be included and executed. There are no known means in PHPFusion through which an attacker can upload and target a ‘.php’ file payload.

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CVEs
CVE-2023-2453
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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4 Nov 2026, 02:35 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Local file Inclusion (LFI) in Forum Infusion via Directory Traversal

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Sept 2023, 14:39 UTC

There is insufficient sanitization of tainted file names that are directly concatenated with a path that is subsequently passed to a ‘require_once’ statement. This allows arbitrary files with the ‘.php’ extension for which the absolute path is known to be included and executed. There are no known means in PHPFusion through which an attacker can upload and target a ‘.php’ file payload.

osv:CVE-2023-2453
Complete source record
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