MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2008-3117

Phpmotion vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
3.3%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in update_profile.php in PHPmotion 2.0 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by uploading a .php file with a content type of (1) image/gif, (2) image/jpeg, or (3) image/pjpeg, then accessing it via a direct request to the file under pictures/.
Affected vendor
Phpmotion
Affected product
Phpmotion
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2008-07-10

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-3117

  • Confirm whether Phpmotion Phpmotion is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-3117.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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