CVE-2018-16974: Elefantcms Elefant

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Elefant CMS before 2.0.7. There is a PHP Code Execution Vulnerability in apps/filemanager/upload/drop.php by using /filemanager/api/rm/.htaccess to remove the .htaccess file, and then using a filename that ends in .php followed by space characters (for bypassing the blacklist).

Affected products

• Elefantcms Elefant: before 2.0.7 (fixed in 2.0.7)

Published 2018-09-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.