Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-40909
WWBN AVideo is an open source video platform. In versions 29.0 and prior, the locale save endpoint (`locale/save.php`) constructs a file path by directly concatenating `$_POST['flag']` into the path at line 30 without any sanitization. The `$_POST['code']` parameter is then written verbatim to that path via `fwrite()` at line 40. An admin attacker (or any user who can CSRF an admin, since no CSRF token is checked and cookies use `SameSite=None`) can traverse out of the `locale/` directory and write arbitrary `.php` files to any writable location on the filesystem, achieving Remote Code Execution. Commit 57f89ffbc27d37c9d9dd727212334846e78ac21a fixes the issue.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 26.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 8.7
Products affected by CVE-2026-40909
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:10.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:10.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:10.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:10.8
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:11.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:11.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:11.5
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:11.6
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:12.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:14.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:14.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:14.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:14.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:2.7
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:3.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:3.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:4.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:4.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:6.5
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:7.3
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:7.4
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:7.5
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:7.6
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:7.7
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:7.8
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:8.5
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:8.6
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:8.7
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:8.9
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cpe:2.3:a:wwbn:avideo:8.9.1