CVE-2012-5231

high

Published 2012-10-01 · 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

miniCMS 1.0 and 2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a crafted (1) pagename or (2) area variable containing an executable extension, which is not properly handled by (a) update.php when writing files to content/, or (b) updatenews.php when writing files to content/news/.

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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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-18410 webapps php

Or4nG.M4N · 2012-01-22

MiniCMS 1.0/2.0 - PHP Code Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
jessgramp	minicms	`1.0`
jessgramp	minicms	`2.0`

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.