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CVE-2022-33941

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-09-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

PowerCMS XMLRPC API provided by Alfasado Inc. contains a command injection vulnerability. Sending a specially crafted message by POST method to PowerCMS XMLRPC API may allow arbitrary Perl script execution, and an arbitrary OS command may be executed through it. Affected products/versions are as follows: PowerCMS 6.021 and earlier (PowerCMS 6 Series), PowerCMS 5.21 and earlier (PowerCMS 5 Series), and PowerCMS 4.51 and earlier (PowerCMS 4 Series). Note that all versions of PowerCMS 3 Series and earlier which are unsupported (End-of-Life, EOL) are also affected by this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Alfasado Inc. PowerCMS: through 4.51; from 5.0 through 5.21; from 6.0 through 6.021

References

• https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN76024879/index.html
• https://www.powercms.jp/news/xmlrpc-api-provision-202208.html
• https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN76024879/index.html
• https://www.powercms.jp/news/xmlrpc-api-provision-202208.html

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