Serendipity 2.5.0 unrestricted upload

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Serendipity 2.5.0. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to unrestricted upload. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-58282. The attack can be initiated remotely. Additionally, an exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Serendipity 2.5.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input 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. The summary by CVE is:

Serendipity 2.5.0 contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows authenticated administrators to upload malicious PHP files through the media upload functionality. Attackers can exploit the file upload mechanism by creating a PHP shell with a command execution form that enables arbitrary system command execution on the web server.

The weakness was released by Ahmet Ümit Bayram as 52036. It is possible to read the advisory at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-58282 since 12/10/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1608.002 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

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 Exploit-DB (52036). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Content Management System

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• Serendipity

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• 2.5.0

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• free

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