CVE-2009-2444: Adbnewssender

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in maillinglist/setup/step1.php.inc in ADbNewsSender before 1.5.6, and 2.0 before RC2, allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the path_to_lang parameter to setup/index.php.

Affected products

• Adbnewssender Adbnewssender: up to and including 1.5.5; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 1.2.0 only; …

Published 2009-07-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.