CVE-2006-2156: x7 Group x7 Chat

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 7.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in help/index.php in X7 Chat 2.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to include arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in the help_file parameter.

Affected products

• x7 Group x7 Chat: version 1.3.2b only; version 1.3.3b only; version 1.3.4b only; version 1.3.5b only; version 1.3.6 only; version 2.0 only

Published 2006-05-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.