CVE-2012-2435

medium
Published 2012-05-27 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.5
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the captcha module in Pligg CMS before 1.2.2 allows remote authenticated users to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the captcha parameter to module.php, as demonstrated by cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
pliggpligg_cms
pliggpligg_cms1.0.0
pliggpligg_cms1.0.1
pliggpligg_cms1.0.2
pliggpligg_cms1.0.3
pliggpligg_cms1.0.4
pliggpligg_cms1.1.0
pliggpligg_cms1.1.2
pliggpligg_cms1.1.3
pliggpligg_cms1.1.4
pliggpligg_cms1.1.5
pliggpligg_cms1.2.0
pliggpligg_cms9.5
pliggpligg_cms9.9
pliggpligg_cms9.9.0
pliggpligg_cms9.9.5

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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