{"id":16844,"date":"2023-09-06T13:29:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T13:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namorgy.com\/blog\/?p=16844"},"modified":"2023-09-06T13:34:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T13:34:01","slug":"critical-vulnerability-in-phpfusion-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.namorgy.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/06\/critical-vulnerability-in-phpfusion-cms\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Vulnerability in PHPFusion CMS Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/author\/jai-vijayan\">Jai Vijayan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No patch is available yet for the bug, which can enable remote code execution<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eu-images.contentstack.com\/v3\/assets\/blt66983808af36a8ef\/blteb243765377478db\/64f797adf7b4012e6ba3cc04\/php_BEST-BACKGROUNDS_shutterstock.jpg?quality=80&amp;format=webply&amp;width=690\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Security researchers have discovered what they described as a critical vulnerability in the relatively widely used PHPFusion open source content management system (CMS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authenticated local file inclusion flaw, identified as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2023-2453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CVE-2023-2453<\/a>, allows for remote code execution if an attacker can upload a maliciously crafted &#8220;.php&#8221; file to a known path on a target system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is one of two vulnerabilities that researchers at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.synopsys.com\/blogs\/software-security\/cyrc-vulnerability-advisory-cve-2023-2453\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Synopsys discovered recently<\/a>&nbsp;in PHPFusion. The other flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-4480, is a moderate-severity bug in the CMS that gives attackers a way to read the contents of files on an affected system and also to write files to arbitrary locations on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vulnerabilities exist in versions 9.10.30 of PHPFusion and earlier. No patch is currently available for either flaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/application-security\/researchers-discover-critical-vulnerability-in-phpfusion-cms\">https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/application-security\/researchers-discover-critical-vulnerability-in-phpfusion-cms<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/application-security\/researchers-discover-critical-vulnerability-in-phpfusion-cms\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jai Vijayan No patch is available yet for the bug, which can enable remote code execution Security researchers have discovered what they described as a critical vulnerability in the 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