CVE-2009-2265: Fckeditor

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 83.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in FCKeditor before 2.6.4.1 allow remote attackers to create executable files in arbitrary directories via directory traversal sequences in the input to unspecified connector modules, as exploited in the wild for remote code execution in July 2009, related to the file browser and the editor/filemanager/connectors/ directory.

Affected products

• Fckeditor Fckeditor: up to and including 2.6.4; version 2.0 only; version 2.0_fc only; version 2.0_rc2 only; version 2.0rc2 only; version 2.0rc3 only; …

Published 2009-07-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.