CVE-2012-5231

high
Published 2012-10-01 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

miniCMS 1.0 and 2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a crafted (1) pagename or (2) area variable containing an executable extension, which is not properly handled by (a) update.php when writing files to content/, or (b) updatenews.php when writing files to content/news/.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
jessgrampminicms1.0
jessgrampminicms2.0

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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