# CVE-2026-40909: WWBN AVideo has a Path Traversal in Locale Save Endpoint that Enables Arbitrary PHP File Write to Any Web-Accessible Directory (RCE)

- Also known as: GHSA-6RC6-P838-686F
- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-04-21 · Updated: 2026-04-21

## Affected

- WWBN AVideo: through 29.0
- wwbn/avideo (Packagist): through 29.0

## Description

WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. In versions 29.0 and prior, the locale save endpoint (`locale/save.php`) constructs a file path by directly concatenating `$_POST['flag']` into the path at line 30 without any sanitization. The `$_POST['code']` parameter is then written verbatim to that path via `fwrite()` at line 40. An admin attacker (or any user who can CSRF an admin, since no CSRF token is checked and cookies use `SameSite=None`) can traverse out of the `locale/` directory and write arbitrary `.php` files to any writable location on the filesystem, achieving Remote Code Execution. Commit 57f89ffbc27d37c9d9dd727212334846e78ac21a fixes the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on WWBN AVideo, wwbn/avideo, 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/WWBN/AVideo/security/advisories/GHSA-6rc6-p838-686f
- https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo/commit/57f89ffbc27d37c9d9dd727212334846e78ac21a

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