CVE-2009-2081: Phpwebthings

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in help.php in phpWebThings 1.5.2 and earlier, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the module parameter.

Affected products

• Phpwebthings Phpwebthings: up to and including 1.5.2; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.2b only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; …

Published 2009-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.