Description
Xerte Online Toolkits versions 3.15 and earlier contain an information disclosure vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to retrieve the full server-side filesystem path of the application root. Attackers can send a GET request to the /setup page to access the exposed root_path value rendered in the HTML response, which enables exploitation of path-dependent vulnerabilities such as relative path traversal in connector.php.
References6
- github.com/bootstrapbool/xerteonlinetoolkits-rce
- github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/commit/f063e942b…
- github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/issues/1527
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/xerte-online-toolkits-path-disclos…
- xerte.org.uk/index.php/en/downloads-1/category/3-xerte-online-t…
- xerte.org.uk/xertetoolkits_3.15_ChangeLog.html
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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5.3
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - CVSS 4.0
-
6.9
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% percentile: 57 · as of 13 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-497
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