CVE-2024-42718 Croogo CMS has a path traversal vulnerability

What is CVE-2024-42718?

CVE-2024-42718 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 26 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A path traversal vulnerability in Croogo CMS 4.0.7 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a specially crafted path in the 'edit-file' parameter.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-42718?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including croogo/croogo. It affects 1 product.

Products include Croogo Croogo.

How do I fix CVE-2024-42718?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-42718 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2024-42718 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-42718 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2024-29643 croogo Host header injection Critical 9.1
• CVE-2021-44673 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type in Croogo High 8.8
• CVE-2017-1000510 Cross site scripting in Croogo Medium 5.4
• CVE-2019-20789 Croos-site scripting in Croogo Medium 4.8
• CVE-2019-7168 Croogo vulnerable to XSS in Blog field Medium 4.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-g5p6-3j82-xfm4.