vedees wcms 0.3.2 Request /wcms/wex/html.php finish/textAreaCode unrestricted upload

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A vulnerability has been found in vedees wcms 0.3.2 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file /wcms/wex/html.php of the component Request Handler. Performing a manipulation of the argument finish/textAreaCode results in unrestricted upload. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2023-31689. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in vedees wcms 0.3.2. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the file /wcms/wex/html.php of the component Request Handler. The manipulation of the argument finish/textAreaCode with an unknown input leads to a unrestricted upload vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In Wcms 0.3.2, an attacker can send a crafted request from a vulnerable web application backend server /wcms/wex/html.php via the finish parameter and the textAreaCode parameter. It can write arbitrary strings into custom file names and upload any files, and write malicious code to execute scripts to trigger command execution.

The weakness was shared 05/22/2023 as 15. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-31689 since 04/29/2023. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1608.002 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

By approaching the search of inurl:wcms/wex/html.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 vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-35984). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• vedees

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• wcms

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• 0.3.2

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• Product: https://github.com/vedees/wcms/

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