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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2023-50982

Stud.IP 5.x through 5.3.3 allows XSS with resultant upload of executable files, because upload_action and edit_action in Admin_SmileysController do not check the file extension. This leads to remote code execution with the privileges of the www-data user. The fixed versions are 5.3.4, 5.2.6, 5.1.7, and 5.0.9.

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4 Nov 2026, 21:09 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2023-50982

core-osv · Original source

Published 8 Jan 2024, 00:00 UTC

Stud.IP 5.x through 5.3.3 allows XSS with resultant upload of executable files, because upload_action and edit_action in Admin_SmileysController do not check the file extension. This leads to remote code execution with the privileges of the www-data user. The fixed versions are 5.3.4, 5.2.6, 5.1.7, and 5.0.9.

osv:CVE-2023-50982
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-50982",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2023-50982",
    "summary": "Stud.IP 5.x through 5.3.3 allows XSS with resultant upload of executable files, because upload_action and edit_action in Admin_SmileysController do not check the file extension. This leads to remote code execution with the privileges of the www-data user. The fixed versions are 5.3.4, 5.2.6, 5.1.7, and 5.0.9.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-50982",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2023-50982",
      "aliases": [
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AC:L/AV:N/A:H/C:H/I:H/PR:L/S:C/UI:R"
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      ],
      "affected": [
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                },
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                  "introduced": "1ff00327893e389fd41d7a8b34769e33e77fa4ce"
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                {
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              ],
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:studip:stud.ip:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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          ],
          "versions": [
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            "v5.1.5",
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            "v5.2.3",
            "v5.3.1",
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            "v5.1.3",
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            "v5.0.4",
            "v5.1.2",
            "v5.2.1",
            "v5.2",
            "v5.0.3",
            "v5.1.1",
            "v5.0.2",
            "v5.1",
            "v5.0.1",
            "v5.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-50982.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:39.427019548Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gitlab.studip.de/studip/studip/-/tags",
        "https://rehmeinfosec.de/labor/cve-2023-50982",
        "https://sourceforge.net/projects/studip/files/Stud.IP/5.4/",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/50xxx/CVE-2023-50982.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50982"
      ],
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      }
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 507059,
  "published_at": "2024-01-08T00:00:00+00:00"
}