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CVE-2011-2148

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2011-05-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Admin/frmSite.aspx in the SmarterTools SmarterStats 6.0 web server allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via vectors involving a leading and trailing & (ampersand) character, and (1) an STTTState cookie, (2) the ctl00%24MPH%24txtAdminNewPassword_SettingText parameter, (3) the ctl00%24MPH%24txtSmarterLogDirectory parameter, (4) the ctl00%24MPH%24ucSiteSeoSearchEngineSettings%24chklistEngines_SettingCheckBox%2414 parameter, (5) the ctl00%24MPH%24ucSiteSeoSettings%24txtSeoMaxKeywords_SettingText parameter, or (6) the ctl00_MPH_grdLogLocations_HiddenLSR parameter, related to an "OS command injection" issue.

Affected products

• SmarterTools Smarterstats: 6.0

References

• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/240150
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MORO-8GYQR4
• http://xss.cx/examples/smarterstats-60-oscommandinjection-directorytraversal-xml-sqlinjection.html.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67834
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/240150
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MORO-8GYQR4
• http://xss.cx/examples/smarterstats-60-oscommandinjection-directorytraversal-xml-sqlinjection.html.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67834

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