CVE-2005-1840: Phpcms

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in class.layout_phpcms.php in phpCMS 1.2.x before 1.2.1pl2 allows remote attackers to read or include arbitrary files, as demonstrated using a .. (dot dot) in the language parameter to parser.php.

Affected products

• Phpcms Phpcms: version 1.2.0 only; version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.1_p12 only; version 1.2.1_pl1 only

Published 2005-06-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.