CVE-2020-11579: Chadhaajay Phpkb

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 26.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Chadha PHPKB 9.0 Enterprise Edition. installer/test-connection.php (part of the installation process) allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to disclose local files on hosts running PHP before 7.2.16, or on hosts where the MySQL ALLOW LOCAL DATA INFILE option is enabled.

Affected products

• Chadhaajay Phpkb: version 9.0 only

Published 2020-09-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.