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CVE-2019-19609

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 54.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-12-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

The Strapi framework before 3.0.0-beta.17.8 is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in the Install and Uninstall Plugin components of the Admin panel, because it does not sanitize the plugin name, and attackers can inject arbitrary shell commands to be executed by the execa function.

Affected products

• strapi: through 1.6.4; 3.0.0-alpha10.1, 3.0.0-alpha10.2, 3.0.0-alpha10.3, 3.0.0-alpha11, 3.0.0-alpha11.1, 3.0.0-alpha11.2 (+86)

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163940/Strapi-3.0.0-beta.17.7-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163950/Strapi-CMS-3.0.0-beta.17.4-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• https://bittherapy.net/post/strapi-framework-remote-code-execution/
• https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/4636
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163940/Strapi-3.0.0-beta.17.7-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163950/Strapi-CMS-3.0.0-beta.17.4-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• https://bittherapy.net/post/strapi-framework-remote-code-execution/
• https://github.com/strapi/strapi/pull/4636

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