CVE-2012-4036

medium

Published 2012-08-27 · 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

7.8

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in admin.php in PBBoard 2.1.4 allows remote administrators to execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in the addons directory. NOTE: this vulnerability can be leveraged by remote attackers using CVE-2012-1216.

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-37616 webapps php verified

High-Tech Bridge · 2012-08-08

PBBoard - 'admin.php?xml_name' Arbitrary PHP Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
pbboard	pbboard	`2.1.4`

References

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

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