CVE-2012-2435

medium

Published 2012-05-27 · 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

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

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
pligg	pligg_cms
pligg	pligg_cms	`1.0.0`
pligg	pligg_cms	`1.0.1`
pligg	pligg_cms	`1.0.2`
pligg	pligg_cms	`1.0.3`
pligg	pligg_cms	`1.0.4`
pligg	pligg_cms	`1.1.0`
pligg	pligg_cms	`1.1.2`
pligg	pligg_cms	`1.1.3`
pligg	pligg_cms	`1.1.4`
pligg	pligg_cms	`1.1.5`
pligg	pligg_cms	`1.2.0`
pligg	pligg_cms	`9.5`
pligg	pligg_cms	`9.9`
pligg	pligg_cms	`9.9.0`
pligg	pligg_cms	`9.9.5`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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

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