Xerte Online Toolkits up to 3.14 Template Import import.php missing authentication

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Xerte Online Toolkits up to 3.14. Impacted is an unknown function of the file /website_code/php/import/import.php of the component Template Import. The manipulation results in missing authentication. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-32985. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Xerte Online Toolkits up to 3.14. Affected is an unknown part of the file /website_code/php/import/import.php of the component Template Import. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a missing authentication vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-306. The product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Xerte Online Toolkits versions 3.14 and earlier contain an unauthenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the template import functionality that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a crafted ZIP archive containing malicious PHP payloads. Attackers can bypass authentication checks in the import.php file to upload a template archive with PHP code in the media directory, which gets extracted to a web-accessible path where the malicious PHP can be directly accessed and executed under the web server context.

The weakness was shared by indoushka. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-32985 since 03/17/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/23/2026).

By approaching the search of inurl:website_code/php/import/import.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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• Xerte

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• Online Toolkits

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• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.3
• 3.4
• 3.5
• 3.6
• 3.7
• 3.8
• 3.9
• 3.10
• 3.11
• 3.12
• 3.13
• 3.14

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