CVE-2018-7251 is a critical information disclosure vulnerability affecting Anchor CMS version 0.12.3 and earlier. It allows an attacker to access MySQL credentials by exploiting an exposed error log at the errors.log URI, which stores sensitive database information if a MySQL error occurs. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating a critical severity with a network attack vector, low complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB and Nuclei templates, and it has garnered significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.12.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:anchorcms:anchor:0.12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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