# CVE-2025-28367: mojoPortal BetterImageGallery - Path Traversal

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2025-28367 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-28367

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Background Noise. Continuous low-level scanning or exploitation attempts are observed, mostly opportunistic and automated.
- **CVSS score:** 6.5
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** mojoPortal
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-284 (Improper Access Control)
- **Tags:** web_application

## Description

mojoPortal <=2.9.0.1 is vulnerable to Directory Traversal via BetterImageGallery API Controller - ImageHandler Action. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to access the Web.Config file and obtain the MachineKey.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-28367](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-28367) is a directory traversal vulnerability in mojoPortal that can allow attackers to access sensitive files, such as configuration files, through the BetterImageGallery API. By exploiting this flaw, an attacker may be able to retrieve the application's MachineKey, potentially leading to further compromise.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 24th of April 2025.

CrowdSec network data shows that most actors exploiting CVE-2025-28367 rely on broad, untargeted scans with minimal filtering. The activity is largely automated and opportunistic in nature.
Additionally, according to week-over-week analysis by CrowdSec, exploitation of CVE-2025-28367 is surging. Attack volumes are spiking well above historical norms, indicating widespread and escalating interest from threat actors. CVE-2025-28367 is currently experiencing high visibility and active exploitation across the internet.

Attackers have been observed sending requests to endpoints containing `/api/betterimagegallery/imagehandler` with traversal patterns in the path.

## Timeline

- 2025-04-21: CVE Published. CVE-2025-28367 is published to NVD.
- 2025-04-24: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-28367 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-04-29: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-28367 for the first time.

## References

- https://github.com/i7MEDIA/mojoportal
- https://www.0xlanks.me/blog/cve-2025-28367-advisory/
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-28367.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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