CVE-2012-1468
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Open Journal Systems before 2.3.7 allows remote authenticated users with the Author Role permission…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Open Journal Systems before 2.3.7 allows remote authenticated users with the Author Role permission to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension that is not ".php", then accessing it via a direct request to the file in submission/original/ in the associated article directory, as demonstrated using .pHp, .asp, and other extensions.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Open Journal Systems (OJS) 2.3.6 - Multiple Script Arbitrary File Upload (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 37001webapps, phppublished 21 Mar 2012Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.0 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (3)
- http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8431 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/RELEASE-2.3.7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23079 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2012-1486 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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