CVE-2012-1468

Open Journal Systems vulnerability

CVSS

6.0

EPSS

3.5%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Open Journal Systems before 2.3.7 allows remote authenticated users with the Author Role permission to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension that is not ".php", then accessing it via a direct request to the file in submission/original/ in the associated article directory, as demonstrated using .pHp, .asp, and other extensions.

Affected vendor

Pkp

Affected product

Open Journal Systems

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2012-09-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium 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 3.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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