CVE-2012-1468

medium
Published 2012-09-06 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
VIR risk
6.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
pkpopen_journal_systems{"endIncluding":"2.3.6"}

References

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.