CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-48946

6.3 MEDIUM Published 2026-06-25 Modified 2026-10-25 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-06-25
Last modified
2026-10-25
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-434

Description

The K2 frontend article-attachment upload path accepts files whose extension is `.php`, and Apache's standard mod_php matches `\.php$` and executes them under the K2 web user. A K2 Author can upload a `shell.php`, then fetch `/media/k2/attachments/shell.php` and execute arbitrary PHP code in the web server's context.

Affected configurations

• joomlaworks k2 (<= 2.26)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type weakness

References