CVE-2007-1906

Exp

Directory traversal vulnerability in richedit/keyboard.php in eCardMAX HotEditor (Hot Editor) 4.0, and the HotEditor plugin for MyBB, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the first parameter.

Published: 2007-04-10 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-1906 is rated High Exploit Risk (75.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 15.59%, 94th percentile). Core evidence: 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2007-1906

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
29827 exploit_db edb 2007-04-09 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-1906

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 2025-11-27 15.09% 15.59% +0.50%
2 2025-06-25 14.29% 15.09% +0.79%
3 2025-03-30 14.29%

Full EPSS history (15 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-1906

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-1906

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-1906

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
ecardmax.com hot_editor 4.0 cpe:2.3:a:ecardmax.com:hot_editor:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mybb mybb_hot_editor_plugin cpe:2.3:a:mybb:mybb_hot_editor_plugin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-1906

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