PHP Scripts Mall Schools Alert Management Script /webmasterst/general.php $_FILE unrestricted upload

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in PHP Scripts Mall Schools Alert Management Script. This impacts an unknown function of the file /webmasterst/general.php. Such manipulation of the argument $_FILE as part of PHP File leads to unrestricted upload. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-12051. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in PHP Scripts Mall Schools Alert Management Script (Programming Language Software) (affected version not known) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /webmasterst/general.php. The manipulation of the argument $_FILE as part of a PHP File leads to a unrestricted upload vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-434. The product allows the attacker to upload or transfer files of dangerous types that can be automatically processed within the product's environment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Arbitrary File Upload and Remote Code Execution exist in PHP Scripts Mall Schools Alert Management Script via $_FILE in /webmasterst/general.php, as demonstrated by a .php file with the image/jpeg content type.

The bug was discovered 06/07/2018. The weakness was disclosed 06/08/2018 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-12051 since 06/08/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1608.002 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:webmasterst/general.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries VDB-119286, VDB-119285, VDB-119284 and VDB-119283 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Programming Language Software

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• PHP Scripts Mall

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• Schools Alert Management Script

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• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.phpscriptsmall.com/

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