CVE-2012-6498

medium

Published 2013-01-08 · 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

6.8

Description

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in index.php in Atomymaxsite 2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file, as exploited in the wild in October 2012.

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
maxtom	atomymaxsite	`{"endIncluding":"2.5"}`
maxtom	atomymaxsite	`1.50`
maxtom	atomymaxsite	`2.0`

References

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

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