Authenticated arbitrary file deletion via unchecked pathname
Published Aug 1, 2025 · Updated Aug 1, 2025
Path traversal in dell.php in Code Projects Document Management System 1.0 allows remote authenticated users to delete server files. The script passes the GET which parameter directly to unlink() after only checking that the supplied path exists, without restricting it to the document directory. A valid administrative session can submit a traversal pathname and delete any file writable by the web-server process, which can interrupt the application.
Summary
What happened
Path traversal in dell.php in Code Projects Document Management System 1.0 allows remote authenticated users to delete server files. The script passes the GET which parameter directly to unlink() after only checking that the supplied path exists, without restricting it to the document directory. A valid administrative session can submit a traversal pathname and delete any file writable by the web-server process, which can interrupt the application.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-8433
- Published
- Aug 1, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 1, 2025
- Vendor
- Code Projects
- Product
- Document Management System
- Classifications
- CWE-22
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 1, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 1, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1.0
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Public exploit references
- dell.php arbitrary file deletion proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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