Vulnerability · Published Mar 15, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-27230
High 8.8
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.8% (higher than 87% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)2.8%top 13.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
ExpressionEngine before 5.4.2 and 6.x before 6.0.3 allows PHP Code Injection by certain authenticated users who can leverage Translate::save() to write to an _lang.php file under the system/user/language directory.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1093444 x_refsource_MISC
- https://expressionengine.com/features x_refsource_MISC
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/32 x_refsource_MISC
- http://karmainsecurity.com/KIS-2021-03 x_refsource_MISC
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161805/ExpressionEngine-6.0.2-PHP-Code-Injection.html x_refsource_MISC