CVE-2009-1846

Exp

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in SiteX 0.7.4 Build 418 and earlier allow remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the THEME_FOLDER parameter to (1) Corporate/homepage.php, (2) Fusion/homepage.php, (3) Joombo/homepage.php, (4) Streamline/homepage.php, and (5) Structure/homepage.php in themes/.

Published: 2009-06-01 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2009-1846 is rated High Exploit Risk (75/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.27%). Core evidence: 2 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-2009-1846

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
8816 exploit_db edb 2009-05-27 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2009-1846

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 2026-06-01 2.04% 2.27% +0.23%
2 2026-01-08 0.91% 2.04% +1.13%
3 2025-03-30 0.91%

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2009-1846

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/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:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
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.
10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2009-1846

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2009-1846

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
bjsintay sitex <= 0.7.4 cpe:2.3:a:bjsintay:sitex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bjsintay sitex 0.6.4_beta cpe:2.3:a:bjsintay:sitex:0.6.4_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bjsintay sitex 0.7.1_beta cpe:2.3:a:bjsintay:sitex:0.7.1_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bjsintay sitex 0.7.2_beta cpe:2.3:a:bjsintay:sitex:0.7.2_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bjsintay sitex 0.7.3 cpe:2.3:a:bjsintay:sitex:0.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bjsintay sitex 0.7.3_beta cpe:2.3:a:bjsintay:sitex:0.7.3_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bjsintay sitex 0.7.4_beta cpe:2.3:a:bjsintay:sitex:0.7.4_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
bjsintay sitex 0.7_beta cpe:2.3:a:bjsintay:sitex:0.7_beta:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2009-1846

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