Security advisory

{
  "id": "fa03b4362a2c22503db51f40c056e9e2ee1126ba122f9d274cce60c04947bd12",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-22249",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-22249",
    "summary": "Remote Code Execution vulnerability in phplist 3.5.1. The application does not check any file extensions stored in the plugin zip file, Uploading a malicious plugin which contains the php files with extensions like PHP,phtml,php7 will be copied to the plugins directory which would lead to the remote code execution",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-22249",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-22249",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-phplist-2020-22249",
        "CVE-2020-22249"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/phplist/phplist3",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "3576011edd4cf5566dc2a6f07ddbaa85bc4cac8d"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "3576011edd4cf5566dc2a6f07ddbaa85bc4cac8d"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:phplist:phplist:3.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.5.1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.5.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.5.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-22249.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:37.805212015Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://drive.google.com/open?id=1znDU4fDKA_seg16mJLLtgaaFfvmf-mS6"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-22249",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 434304,
  "published_at": "2021-07-06T20:15:07.953+00:00"
}