CVE-2013-1668

high
Published 2014-05-23 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.5

Description

The uploadFile function in upload/index.php in CosCMS before 1.822 allows remote administrators to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the name of an uploaded file.

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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” 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-24629 webapps php
High-Tech Bridge SA ยท 2013-03-07

CosCMS 1.721 - OS Command Injection

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
coscmscoscms{"endIncluding":"1.721"}
coscmscoscms1.3
coscmscoscms1.41

References

CWEs

CWE-78

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

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