CVE-2014-1836

Exp

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in htdocs/libraries/image-editor/image-edit.php in ImpressCMS before 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via a full pathname in the image_path parameter in a cancel action.

Published: 2015-07-01 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-1836 is rated High Exploit Risk (78/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 18.54%, 95th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +4.08% 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-2014-1836

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
31431 exploit_db edb 2014-02-05 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-1836

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 2026-03-19 14.45% 18.54% +4.08%
2 2026-03-16 18.12% 14.45% -3.66%
3 2025-03-30 18.12%

Full EPSS history (16 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-1836

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.4 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/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:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 4.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-1836

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2014-1836

GHSA-wcj4-ff9m-5r7g · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: composer — ImpressCMS Path Traversal to Arbitrary File Delete

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-1836

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
impresscms impresscms <= 1.3.5 cpe:2.3:a:impresscms:impresscms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-1836

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