# CVE-2020-25540: ThinkAdmin v6 is affected by a directory traversal vulnerability.

- Also known as: GHSA-2QM5-R82G-5HCX
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB, 4 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub, 1 Nuclei template
- Published: 2020-09-14 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- zoujingli/thinkadmin (Packagist): 6.0

## Description

ThinkAdmin v6 is affected by a directory traversal vulnerability. An unauthorized attacker can read arbitrarily file on a remote server via GET request encode parameter.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, zoujingli/thinkadmin, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/zoujingli/ThinkAdmin/issues/244
- https://wtfsec.org/posts/thinkadmin-v6-%E5%88%97%E7%9B%AE%E5%BD%95-%E4%BB%BB%E6%84%8F%E6%96%87%E4%BB%B6%E8%AF%BB%E5%8F%96/
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159177/ThinkAdmin-6-Arbitrary-File-Read.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48812
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2020/CVE-2020-25540.yaml
- https://github.com/RajChowdhury240/ThinkAdmin-CVE-2020-25540
- https://github.com/Schira4396/CVE-2020-25540
- https://github.com/lowkey0808/cve-2020-25540
- https://github.com/simonlee-hello/CVE-2020-25540

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