SB2018110917 - Code Injection in phpcms.de phpCMS
Published: November 9, 2018 Updated: August 8, 2020
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19127)
CWE-ID: CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVSSv4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
A code injection vulnerability in /type.php in PHPCMS 2008 allows attackers to write arbitrary content to a website cache file with a controllable filename, leading to arbitrary code execution. The PHP code is sent via the template parameter, and is written to a data/cache_template/*.tpl.php file along with a "<?php function " substring.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.