CVE-2008-6658 Information

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in Simple Machines Forum (SMF) 1.0 before 1.0.15 and 1.1 before 1.1.7 allows remote authenticated administrators to install packages from arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in the package parameter during an install2 action as demonstrated by a predictable package filename in attachments/ that was uploaded through a post2 action to index.php.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/50070 http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=272861.0 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6993