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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-16975 json

Elefant CMS PHP Code Execution Vulnerability

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-x2w2-qgv6-8xrm , EUVD-2022-5689

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.7%
EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Elefant CMS before 2.0.7. There is a PHP Code Execution Vulnerability in /designer/add/stylesheet.php by using a .php extension in the New Stylesheet Name field in conjunction with <?php content, because of insufficient input validation in apps/designer/handlers/csspreview.php.

Patch / fix

  • packagist elefant/cms 2.0.7
  • elefantcms elefant 2.0.7

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Exploit prediction

3.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/jbroadway/elefant/issues/286 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist elefant/cms
<2.0.7
2.0.7

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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