Perch CMS 3.2 Assets Management Interface unrestricted upload

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A vulnerability was found in Perch CMS 3.2. It has been rated as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Assets Management Interface. The manipulation leads to unrestricted upload. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-53889. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Perch CMS 3.2. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Assets Management Interface. 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:

Perch CMS 3.2 contains a remote code execution vulnerability that allows authenticated administrators to upload arbitrary PHP files through the assets management interface. Attackers can upload a malicious .phar file with embedded system command execution capabilities to execute arbitrary commands on the server.

The weakness was shared by Mirabbas Ağalarov as 51620. It is possible to read the advisory at exploit-db.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-53889 since 12/15/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. 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.

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• Content Management System

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• Perch

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• CMS

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• 3.2

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