CVE-2019-15952
An authenticated user with the Pages privilege can conduct a path traversal attack (../) to include .html files that are outside the permitted directory.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (5.12%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
An issue was discovered in Total.js CMS 12.0.0. An authenticated user with the Pages privilege can conduct a path traversal attack (../) to include .html files that are outside the permitted directory. Also, if a page contains a template directive, then the directive will be server side processed. Thus, if a user can control the content of a .html file, then they can inject a payload with a malicious template directive to gain Remote Command Execution. The exploit will work only with the .html extension.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 5.12% probability · 92th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- totaljs/total.js cms
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 5.1% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154340/Totaljs-CMS-12.0-Path-Traversal.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/11
- https://github.com/beerpwn/CVE/blob/master/Totaljs_disclosure_report/report_final.pdfExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/2Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154340/Totaljs-CMS-12.0-Path-Traversal.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/11
- https://github.com/beerpwn/CVE/blob/master/Totaljs_disclosure_report/report_final.pdfExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/2Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.