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CVE-2022-30708

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-05-15 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Webmin through 1.991, when the Authentic theme is used, allows remote code execution when a user has been manually created (i.e., not created in Virtualmin or Cloudmin). This occurs because settings-editor_write.cgi does not properly restrict the file parameter.

Affected products

• Webmin: through 1.991

References

• https://github.com/esp0xdeadbeef/rce_webmin
• https://github.com/esp0xdeadbeef/rce_webmin/blob/main/exploit.py
• https://github.com/webmin/authentic-theme/releases
• https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/6a2334bf8b27d55c7edf0b2825cd14f3f8a69d4d
• https://github.com/webmin/webmin/issues/1635
• https://github.com/webmin/webmin/releases
• https://webmin.com/changes.html
• https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1483029790
• https://github.com/esp0xdeadbeef/rce_webmin
• https://github.com/esp0xdeadbeef/rce_webmin/blob/main/exploit.py
• https://github.com/webmin/authentic-theme/releases
• https://github.com/webmin/webmin/commit/6a2334bf8b27d55c7edf0b2825cd14f3f8a69d4d

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