Webedition CMS 2.9.8.8 Description code injection

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Webedition CMS 2.9.8.8. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation of the argument Description leads to code injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2023-53883. The attack may be initiated remotely. In addition, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Webedition CMS 2.9.8.8 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument description with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Webedition CMS v2.9.8.8 contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to inject system commands through PHP page creation. Attackers can create a new PHP page with malicious system commands in the description field to execute arbitrary commands on the server.

The weakness was presented by Mirabbas Ağalarov as 51661. The advisory is shared at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-53883 since 12/13/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059 for this issue.

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.

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• Content Management System

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• Webedition

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• CMS

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• 2.9.8.8

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