Chamilo LMS up to 1.11.29 Configuration import.php configuration_file/course_path/home_path deserialization

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A vulnerability was found in Chamilo LMS up to 1.11.29. It has been rated as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the file /plugin/vchamilo/views/import.php of the component Configuration Handler. This manipulation of the argument configuration_file/course_path/home_path causes deserialization. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-50198. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in Chamilo LMS up to 1.11.29. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the file /plugin/vchamilo/views/import.php of the component Configuration Handler. The manipulation of the argument configuration_file/course_path/home_path with an unknown input leads to a deserialization vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-502. The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Chamilo is a learning management system. Prior to version 1.11.30, Chamilo is vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data in /plugin/vchamilo/views/import.php via POST configuration_file; POST course_path; POST home_path parameters. This issue has been patched in version 1.11.30.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-50198 since 06/13/2025. 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.

By approaching the search of inurl:plugin/vchamilo/views/import.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 1.11.30 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-208171). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• Chamilo

Name

• LMS

Version

• 1.11.0
• 1.11.1
• 1.11.2
• 1.11.3
• 1.11.4
• 1.11.5
• 1.11.6
• 1.11.7
• 1.11.8
• 1.11.9
• 1.11.10
• 1.11.11
• 1.11.12
• 1.11.13
• 1.11.14
• 1.11.15
• 1.11.16
• 1.11.17
• 1.11.18
• 1.11.19
• 1.11.20
• 1.11.21
• 1.11.22
• 1.11.23
• 1.11.24
• 1.11.25
• 1.11.26
• 1.11.27
• 1.11.28
• 1.11.29

License

• open-source

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