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GHSA-53WM-FW97-Q62H

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-04-22 21:32 – Updated: 2026-04-24 21:31

Details

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.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

6.9 (Medium)


                  
                    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

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CVE-2026-41459 (GCVE-0-2026-41459)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-22 18:32 – Updated: 2026-07-14 20:00

Title

Xerte Online Toolkits Path Disclosure via /setup

Summary

Severity

6.9 (Medium)


                        
                          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

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-04-23 14:13 UTC

CWE

CWE-497 - Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere

Assigner

VulnCheck mitre root

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/bootstrapbool/xerteonlinetoolk…	technical-descriptionexploit
https://xerte.org.uk/xertetoolkits_3.15_ChangeLog.html	release-notes
https://xerte.org.uk/index.php/en/downloads-1/cat…	productpermissions-required
https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoo…	issue-tracking
https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoo…	patch
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/xerte-online…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
thexerteproject	xerteonlinetoolkits	Affected: 3.15.0 (semver) Affected: 0 , < f063e942b4a9bf77a06829e844c2c70316bc45e8 (git)

Credits

bootstrapbool

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