CVE-2011-5005

high

Published 2011-12-25 · 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

8.5

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in QuiXplorer 2.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension using the upload action to index.php, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in an unspecified directory.

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18118 webapps php verified

PCA · 2011-11-15

QuiXplorer 2.3 - Bugtraq Arbitrary File Upload

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
claudio_klingler	quixplorer	`{"endIncluding":"2.3"}`
claudio_klingler	quixplorer	`1.0`
claudio_klingler	quixplorer	`1.1`
claudio_klingler	quixplorer	`1.2`
claudio_klingler	quixplorer	`1.4`
claudio_klingler	quixplorer	`1.5`
claudio_klingler	quixplorer	`1.6`
claudio_klingler	quixplorer	`2.0`
claudio_klingler	quixplorer	`2.1.1`
claudio_klingler	quixplorer	`2.2`
mads_brunn	t3quixplorer	`1.0.0`
mads_brunn	t3quixplorer	`1.0.1`
mads_brunn	t3quixplorer	`1.0.2`
mads_brunn	t3quixplorer	`1.2.0`
mads_brunn	t3quixplorer	`1.3.0`
mads_brunn	t3quixplorer	`1.4.0`
mads_brunn	t3quixplorer	`1.5.0`
mads_brunn	t3quixplorer	`1.6.0`
mads_brunn	t3quixplorer	`1.7.0`
mads_brunn	t3quixplorer	`1.7.1`

References

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

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