PhpTax 0.8 drawimage.php exec pfilez os command injection

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A vulnerability was found in PhpTax 0.8. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function exec of the file drawimage.php. This manipulation of the argument pfilez causes os command injection. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2012-10037. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in PhpTax 0.8. Affected by this vulnerability is the function exec of the file drawimage.php. The manipulation of the argument pfilez with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

PhpTax version 0.8 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in drawimage.php. The pfilez GET parameter is unsafely passed to the exec() function without sanitization. A remote attacker can inject arbitrary shell commands, leading to code execution under the web server's context. No authentication is required.

The weakness was shared by Jean Pascal Pereira. The advisory is shared at raw.githubusercontent.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2012-10037 since 08/07/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/11/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1202 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:drawimage.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.

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• PhpTax

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• 0.8

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• end of life

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