CVE-2023-5022 — A vulnerability has been found in DedeCMS up to 5

A vulnerability has been found in DedeCMS up to 5.7.100 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /include/dialog/select_templets_post.php. The manipulation of the argument activepath leads to absolute path traversal. The a

01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability has been found in DedeCMS up to 5.7.100 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file /include/dialog/select_templets_post.php. The manipulation of the argument activepath leads to absolute path traversal. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-239863.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / DedeCMS	5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-09-17T05:31:04.908Z
• Last modified: 2025-06-18T14:36:45.598Z

09References

• vuldb.com — https://vuldb.com/?id.239863
• vuldb.com — https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.239863
• github.com — https://github.com/bayuncao/DEDEcms