# CVE-2025-52207: MikoPBX - Path Traversal

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2025-52207 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-2025-52207

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 9.9
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** MikoPBX
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-23 (Relative Path Traversal)
- **Tags:** php

## Description

PBXCoreREST/Controllers/Files/PostController.php in MikoPBX through 2024.1.114 allows uploading a PHP script to an arbitrary directory.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-52207](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-52207) is a critical vulnerability in MikoPBX through version 2024.1.114 that allows authenticated attackers to upload arbitrary PHP scripts to any directory. This flaw can be exploited to achieve remote code execution, potentially leading to full system compromise, data theft, or further attacks within the network.

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

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2025-52207 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attackers exploit this vulnerability by uploading malicious PHP files via the `/pbxcore/api/files/uploadFile` endpoint, then accessing them through `/pbxcore/files/cache/` to achieve remote code execution.

## Timeline

- 2025-06-27: CVE Published. CVE-2025-52207 is published to NVD.
- 2025-09-24: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-52207 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-11-26: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-52207 for the first time.

## References

- https://github.com/mikopbx/Core/commit/3ee785429d3f1b33c9ab387ef4221127c9b8c5f3
- https://www.mikopbx.com/
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-52207.yaml

## Live exploitation data

The [Live Exploit Tracker page](https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-52207) follows observed exploitation activity for CVE-2025-52207. [Request an API key](https://tracker.crowdsec.net/request-api-key) for full access to its exploitation timeline, attacking IP addresses and blocklists.