CVE-2005-4690: Six Apart Movable Type

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Six Apart Movable Type 3.16 allows local users with blog-creation privileges to create or overwrite arbitrary files of certain types (such as HTML and image files) by selecting an arbitrary directory as a blog's top-level directory. NOTE: this issue can be used in conjunction with CVE-2005-3102 to create or overwrite arbitrary files of all types.

Affected products

• Six Apart Movable Type: version 3.16 only

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.