CVE-2017-9067: Modx Revolution

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In MODX Revolution before 2.5.7, when PHP 5.3.3 is used, an attacker is able to include and execute arbitrary files on the web server due to insufficient validation of the action parameter to setup/index.php, aka directory traversal.

Affected products

• Modx Modx Revolution: version 2.5.6 only
• PHP PHP: version 5.3.3 only

Published 2017-05-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.