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CVE-2019-15954

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 78.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

An issue was discovered in Total.js CMS 12.0.0. An authenticated user with the widgets privilege can gain achieve Remote Command Execution (RCE) on the remote server by creating a malicious widget with a special tag containing JavaScript code that will be evaluated server side. In the process of evaluating the tag by the back-end, it is possible to escape the sandbox object by using the following payload: <script total>global.process.mainModule.require(child_process).exec(RCE);</script>

Affected products

• totaljs Total.Js Cms: 12.0.0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154924/Total.js-CMS-12-Widget-JavaScript-Code-Injection.html
• https://github.com/beerpwn/CVE/blob/master/Totaljs_disclosure_report/report_final.pdf
• https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/5
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154924/Total.js-CMS-12-Widget-JavaScript-Code-Injection.html
• https://github.com/beerpwn/CVE/blob/master/Totaljs_disclosure_report/report_final.pdf
• https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/5

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