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CVE-2018-16974

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-434

Description

An issue was discovered in Elefant CMS before 2.0.7. There is a PHP Code Execution Vulnerability in apps/filemanager/upload/drop.php by using /filemanager/api/rm/.htaccess to remove the .htaccess file, and then using a filename that ends in .php followed by space characters (for bypassing the blacklist).

Affected products

• Elefantcms Elefant: before 2.0.7 — fixed in 2.0.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Elefantcms Elefant 2.0.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/jbroadway/elefant/commit/49ba8cc24e9f009ce30d2c2eb9eefeb9be4ce1d0
• https://github.com/jbroadway/elefant/issues/287
• https://github.com/jbroadway/elefant/releases/tag/elefant_2_0_7_stable
• https://github.com/jbroadway/elefant/commit/49ba8cc24e9f009ce30d2c2eb9eefeb9be4ce1d0
• https://github.com/jbroadway/elefant/issues/287
• https://github.com/jbroadway/elefant/releases/tag/elefant_2_0_7_stable

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