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CVE-2011-1028

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-11-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The $smarty.template variable in Smarty3 allows attackers to possibly execute arbitrary PHP code via the sysplugins/smarty_internal_compile_private_special_variable.php file.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• Smarty: from 3.0.0 before 3.0.7 — fixed in 3.0.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Smarty 3.0.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1028
• https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q1/313
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1028
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-1028
• https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q1/313
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1028

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