CVE-2009-5068: Simplemachines Simple Machines Forum

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is a file disclosure vulnerability in SMF (Simple Machines Forum) affecting versions through v2.0.3. On some configurations a SMF deployment is shared by several "co-admins" that are not trusted beyond the SMF deployment. This vulnerability allows them to read arbitrary files on the filesystem and therefore gain new privileges by reading the settings.php with the database passwords.

Affected products

• Simplemachines Simple Machines Forum: up to and including 2.0.3

Published 2020-01-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.