CVE-2006-0921: Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in connector.php in FCKeditor 2.0 FC, as used in products such as RunCMS, allow remote attacker
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 26/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.6% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 76.6% of all records.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in connector.php in FCKeditor 2.0 FC, as used in products such as RunCMS, allow remote attackers to list and create arbitrary directories via a .. (dot dot) in the CurrentFolder parameter to (1) GetFoldersAndFiles and (2) CreateFolder.
- Published
- Feb 28, 2006
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 1.6% · 76th percentile
- CWE
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Report tools
Action score
26
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 25 / 40 · 6.4 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 1 / 30 · 1.6%
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| fckeditor | fckeditor | cpe:2.3:a:fckeditor:fckeditor |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- fckeditor fckeditor2.0_fc
Same product
fckeditor: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2009-2265Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in FCKeditor before 2.6.4.1 allow remote attackers to create executable files in arbitrary dire55Plan
- CVE-2008-6178Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/php/connector.php in FCKeditor 2.2, as used in Falt432Monitor
- CVE-2006-0658Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in connector.php in FCKeditor 2.0 and 2.2, as used in products such as RunCMS, allows remote attackers to22Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2005-0613Feb 28, 2005 · Unknown vulnerability in FCKeditor 2.0 RC2, when used with PHP-Nuke, allows remote attackers to upload arbitrary files.21Monitor
- Later →CVE-2006-2529May 22, 2006 · editor/filemanager/upload/php/upload.php in FCKeditor before 2.3 Beta, when the upload feature is enabled, does not verify the Type paramete21Monitor
- Later →CVE-2006-6978Feb 8, 2007 · Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the "Basic Toolbar Selection" in FCKEditor allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScri17Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
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No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
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No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- P · data can be read
- Integrity
- P · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- none
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Confidentiality impact
- P
- Integrity impact
- P
- Availability impact
- None
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
nvd-primary
Attack context
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Change log
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References
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