CVE-2026-74239 PUBLISHED

XenForo < 2.3.13 Path Traversal via Style Archive Importer on Windows

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 14.08.2026 Published: 08.09.2026 Updated: 09.09.2026

XenForo before 2.3.13 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the style archive importer on Windows deployments that allows authenticated non-super administrators with style permissions to write arbitrary files outside the intended extraction directory by using backslash-based traversal sequences in ZIP member names. Attackers can craft a malicious ZIP archive with backslash path separators that bypass forward-slash validation to write arbitrary bytes to any web-server-writable path, including the public web root, achieving persistent code execution as the web-server account.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.6

Product Status

Vendor XenForo
Product XenForo
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 2.3.13 (excl.)

Credits

  • Marco Paciaroni (BomboBombone) finder
  • VulnCheck coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE