CVE-2021-40189

7.2 HIGH

PHPFusion 9.03.110 is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability

Published: 2021-10-11 · Last updated: 2026-06-17

Severity and scoring

CVSS: 7.2 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE: CWE-434

Affected products

Vendor	Product
php-fusion	phpfusion

Description

PHPFusion 9.03.110 is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability. The theme function will extract a file to "webroot/themes/{Theme Folder], where an attacker can access and execute arbitrary code.

Source: NVD

References

[NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40189
[Exploit reference]https://github.com/PHPFusion/PHPFusion/issues/2374
[Exploit reference]https://github.com/PHPFusion/PHPFusion/issues/2374

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