CVE-2012-2435

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
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: yes
Published: 2012-05-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the captcha module in Pligg CMS before 1.2.2 allows remote authenticated users to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the captcha parameter to module.php, as demonstrated by cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

Affected products

Pligg Cms: through 1.2.1; 1.0.0, 1.0.0-rc1, 1.0.0-rc2, 1.0.0-rc3, 1.0.0-rc4, 1.0.0-rc5 (+16)

References

http://forums.pligg.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=15
http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg?view=revision&revision=2440
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23089
http://forums.pligg.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=15
http://pligg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pligg?view=revision&revision=2440
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23089

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