CVE-2013-4898

medium

Published 2014-01-29 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the user profile page feature in the Timeline Plugin 4.2.5p9 for SocialEngine allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in public/temporary/timeline/.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
webhive	timeline	`4.2.5`
socialengine	socialengine	`-`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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