CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-27230
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-03-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
ExpressionEngine before 5.4.2 and 6.x before 6.0.3 allows PHP Code Injection by certain authenticated users who can leverage Translate::save() to write to an _lang.php file under the system/user/language directory.
Affected configurations
• expressionengine expressionengine (< 5.4.2)
• expressionengine expressionengine (>= 6.0.0 < 6.0.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://karmainsecurity.com/KIS-2021-03 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161805/ExpressionEngine-6.0.2-PHP-Code-Injection.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/32 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://expressionengine.com/features Vendor Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1093444 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- http://karmainsecurity.com/KIS-2021-03 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161805/ExpressionEngine-6.0.2-PHP-Code-Injection.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/32 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://expressionengine.com/features Vendor Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1093444 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory