pretalx vulnerable to path traversal in HTML export
Date: 2023-04
Affected: pip/pretalx
Attack vector: path-traversal
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2023-28458
CVE-2023-28459
CWE: CWE-22
CVSS: 6.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

pretalx before 2.3.2 allows path traversal in HTML export (a non-default feature). Users were able to upload crafted HTML documents that trigger the reading of arbitrary files.


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