CVE-2009-5068

HIGH

Simple Machines Forum <= 2.0.3 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Read via settings.php

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2009-5068.

AI-analyzed exploit summary The document describes multiple vulnerabilities in Simple Machines Forum, including RCE, XSS, CSRF, information disclosure, and DoS. It provides example URIs and payloads for exploitation but lacks functional exploit code.

Description

There is a file disclosure vulnerability in SMF (Simple Machines Forum) affecting versions through v2.0.3. On some configurations a SMF deployment is shared by several "co-admins" that are not trusted beyond the SMF deployment. This vulnerability allows them to read arbitrary files on the filesystem and therefore gain new privileges by reading the settings.php with the database passwords.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP
webappsphp
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/10274

The document describes multiple vulnerabilities in Simple Machines Forum, including RCE, XSS, CSRF, information disclosure, and DoS. It provides example URIs and payloads for exploitation but lacks functional exploit code.

Classification
Writeup 90%
Attack Type
Xss | Dos | Info Leak
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Theoretical
Target: Simple Machines Forum 1.1.10, 2.0 RC2
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Access to the target forum · Victim interaction for XSS/CSRF
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 19, 2026 Full analysis →

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/01/4

Scores

CVSS v3 7.2
EPSS 0.0173
EPSS Percentile 74.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-312
Status published
Products (1)
simplemachines/simple_machines_forum < 2.0.3
Published Jan 15, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026