CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-1468

6.0 MEDIUM Published 2012-09-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-09-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Open Journal Systems before 2.3.7 allows remote authenticated users with the Author Role permission to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension that is not ".php", then accessing it via a direct request to the file in submission/original/ in the associated article directory, as demonstrated using .pHp, .asp, and other extensions.

Affected configurations

• pkp open journal systems (<= 2.3.6)

References