CVE-2026-74239

XenForo < 2.3.13 Path Traversal via Style Archive Importer on Windows

HIGH
7.2
CVSS Score
Published: September 8, 2026 at 01:20 PM UTC
Updated: October 1, 2026 at 03:20 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorXenForo

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Severity
HIGH7.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.9%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 2.3.13
Affected range stops below 2.3.13, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.2HIGHVulnCheck
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-22

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