CVE-2006-5028

Exp

Directory traversal vulnerability in filemanager/filemanager.php in SWsoft Plesk 7.5 Reload and Plesk 7.6 for Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to list arbitrary directories via a ../ (dot dot slash) in the file parameter in a chdir action.

Published: 2006-09-27 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-5028 is rated High Exploit Risk (74.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 66.42%, 99th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +29.93% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-5028

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
28647 exploit_db edb 2006-09-22 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5028

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-18 36.49% 66.42% +29.93%
2 2025-09-05 35.77% 36.49% +0.72%
3 2025-05-16 35.77%

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5028

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-5028

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5028

vendor priority summary link
alpine CVE-2006-5028: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5028

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5028

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
swsoft plesk 7.6 cpe:2.3:a:swsoft:plesk:7.6:*:windows:*:*:*:*:*
swsoft plesk_reload 7.5 cpe:2.3:a:swsoft:plesk_reload:7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5028

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