Critical
Security advisory
In Wcms 0.3.2, an attacker can send a crafted request from a vulnerable web application backend server /wcms/wex/html.php via the finish parameter and the textAreaCode parameter. It can write arbitrary strings into custom file names and upload any files, and write malicious code to execute scripts to trigger command execution.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2023-31689
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 02:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Wcms 0.3.2, an attacker can send a crafted request from a vulnerable web application backend server /wcms/wex/html.php via the finish parameter and the textAreaCode parameter. It can write arbitrary strings into custom file names and upload any files, and write malicious code to execute scripts to trigger command execution.
osv:CVE-2023-31689
Complete source record
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