CVE-2011-5130

medium
Published 2012-08-30 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

dev/less.php in Family Connections CMS (FCMS) 2.5.0 - 2.7.1, when register_globals is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the argv[1] parameter.

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-18208 webapps php verified
Metasploit ยท 2011-12-07

Family Connections CMS 2.7.1 - 'less.php' Remote Command Execution (Metasploit)

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EDB-18198 webapps php verified
mr_me ยท 2011-12-04

Family Connections CMS 2.5.0/2.7.1 - 'less.php' Remote Command Execution

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Metasploit modules

Family Connections less.php Remote Command Execution
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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
haudenschiltfamily_connections_cms2.5.0
haudenschiltfamily_connections_cms2.5.1
haudenschiltfamily_connections_cms2.5.2
haudenschiltfamily_connections_cms2.5.3
haudenschiltfamily_connections_cms2.5.4
haudenschiltfamily_connections_cms2.6.0
haudenschiltfamily_connections_cms2.7.0
haudenschiltfamily_connections_cms2.7.1

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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

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