Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessSocial-engineer admin to visit malicious page
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DeliveryBrowser auto-submits CSRF form to locale/save.php
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ExploitTraversal payload writes PHP shell to web root
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ExecutionAccess shell URL to execute commands
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ImpactEstablish persistent backdoor or exfiltrate data
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V5 - File Handling Path canonicalization, traversal prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Discovery, Collection The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires authenticated session with administrator privileges (PR:H), but effectively bypassable via CSRF attack against admin users. Specific prerequisites: victim AVideo instance must use SameSite=None cookie configuration (default in versions ≤29.0) AND attacker must social-engineer an authenticated admin to visit malicious cross-origin page while logged into AVideo, OR attacker must possess stolen/hijacked admin credentials. The locale/save.php endpoint must be network-accessible to the attacker or their CSRF victim. No non-default configuration required - vulnerability exists in standard installations. Exploitation is limited to write locations where the web server process has filesystem write permissions, typically the AVideo installation directory and system temp paths. User interaction is required only for CSRF attack chain; direct exploitation with stolen admin credentials requires no user interaction (UI:N per CVSS). |
| Impact | Real-world risk assessment reveals moderate-to-high priority depending on deployment context. CVSS 8.7 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C) accurately reflects network-based attack vector with low complexity but requires high privileges (admin access). The Changed scope indicates impact beyond the vulnerable component. However, the CSRF vector significantly lowers the effective privilege barrier - any attacker who can social-engineer an admin to visit a malicious page can trigger exploitation without stolen credentials. No EPSS score or CISA KEV listing provided, suggesting limited evidence of active exploitation at time of analysis. Publicly available exploit code exists (PoC implicit in detailed GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-6rc6-p838-686f). Priority should be elevated for internet-facing AVideo deployments where admin sessions may be exposed to CSRF attacks, but reduced for internal deployments with strict admin access controls and network segmentation. The combination of path traversal + arbitrary file write + PHP execution makes this a genuine RCE risk, not merely a file disclosure issue. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker crafts a malicious HTML page containing a hidden form that POSTs to the victim's AVideo instance at /locale/save.php with flag=../../../../../../var/www/html/shell.php and code containing PHP backdoor code. When an authenticated AVideo administrator visits the attacker's page, their browser automatically submits the form with their admin session cookies due to SameSite=None. The vulnerable endpoint writes the PHP shell to the web root without path validation. The attacker then accesses /shell.php directly via HTTP to execute arbitrary system commands as the web server user. Publicly available exploit code exists per GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-6rc6-p838-686f. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Apr 21, 2026
Path traversal in WWBN AVideo 29.0 and earlier allows authenticated administrators (or CSRF-tricked admins) to write arbitrary PHP files anywhere on the server filesystem, achieving remote code execution. The locale save endpoint fails to sanitize the 'flag' parameter used in file path construction and lacks CSRF protection despite SameSite=None cookies, enabling straightforward exploitation by lower-privilege attackers who chain CSRF against admin sessions. Upstream fix committed to GitHub (57f89ffb) but released patched version not independently confirmed. CVSS 8.7 reflects high impact but requires privileged access - real-world risk depends heavily on admin session hijacking opportunities.
RemediationAI
Apply the upstream fix by updating to a version incorporating commit 57f89ffbc27d37c9d9dd727212334846e78ac21a, available at https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo/commit/57f89ffbc27d37c9d9dd727212334846e78ac21a. Note that a vendor-tagged release version incorporating this fix is not independently confirmed at time of analysis - verify current version status with WWBN project before deployment. If immediate patching is not feasible, implement compensating controls: restrict access to locale/save.php to localhost-only via web server configuration (e.g., Apache 'Require ip 127.0.0.1' or nginx 'allow 127.0.0.1; deny all;'), recognizing this breaks remote administration workflows. Alternatively, implement application firewall rules blocking requests with '../' or absolute path characters in the 'flag' parameter, though this may be bypassable via URL encoding. Deploy CSRF tokens site-wide and change cookie SameSite attribute from None to Strict, accepting that this breaks legitimate cross-origin admin workflows. Monitor web server logs for POST requests to locale/save.php with unusual 'flag' values or from unexpected source IPs.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The vulnerability exists in the locale/save.php endpoint of WWBN AVideo, an open-source video streaming platform written in PHP. The code directly concatenates unsanitized user input from $_POST['flag'] into a file path construction (line 30), then writes arbitrary content from $_POST['code'] to that path via fwrite() (line 40). This constitutes a classic CWE-22 (Path Traversal) weakness that escalates to arbitrary file write. The absence of CSRF token validation combined with SameSite=None cookie attributes creates a CSRF exposure, allowing attackers to exploit this via cross-site requests against authenticated admin sessions. The affected product is identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* covering all versions through 29.0. PHP's fwrite() function will create executable .php files with attacker-controlled content at traversal-specified locations, enabling immediate code execution when accessed via web request.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
Lifecycle Timeline
3DescriptionNVD
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.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Cross-Site Request Forgery exploits the automatic credential inclusion behavior of web browsers.
Path traversal exploits occur when applications use user-controlled input to construct file system paths without proper validation.
Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.
A cross-site scripting (xss) vulnerability exists in the functiongetOpenGraph videoName functionality of WWBN AVideo 11.
An issue in WWBN AVideo v.12.4 through v.14.2 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the systemRootPath
A directory traversal vulnerability exists in the unzipDirectory functionality of WWBN AVideo 11.6 and dev master commit
An insufficient entropy vulnerability exists in the salt generation functionality of WWBN AVideo dev master commit 15fed
Unauthenticated SQL injection in AVideo before 24.0.
OS injection vulnerability in World Wide Broadcast Network AVideo version before 12.4, allows attackers to execute arbit
A reflected cross-site scripting (xss) vulnerability exists in the charts tab selection functionality of WWBN AVideo 11.
A cross-site scripting (xss) vulnerability exists in the channelBody.php user name functionality of WWBN AVideo 11.6 and
A cross-site scripting (xss) vulnerability exists in the videoAddNew functionality of WWBN AVideo 11.6 and dev master co
An insufficient entropy vulnerability exists in the userRecoverPass.php recoverPass generation functionality of WWBN AVi
WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable
AVideo is an open source video platform. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low
EUVD-2026-24288
GHSA-6rc6-p838-686f
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
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