High
Security advisory
Because of Unrestricted Upload of a File with a Dangerous Type, Sourcefabric Newscoop 4.4.7 allows an authenticated user to execute arbitrary PHP code (and sometimes terminal commands) on a server by making an avatar update and then visiting the avatar file under the /images/ path.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-11807
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Because of Unrestricted Upload of a File with a Dangerous Type, Sourcefabric Newscoop 4.4.7 allows an authenticated user to execute arbitrary PHP code (and sometimes terminal commands) on a server by making an avatar update and then visiting the avatar file under the /images/ path.
osv:CVE-2020-11807
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-11807",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2020-11807",
"summary": "Because of Unrestricted Upload of a File with a Dangerous Type, Sourcefabric Newscoop 4.4.7 allows an authenticated user to execute arbitrary PHP code (and sometimes terminal commands) on a server by making an avatar update and then visiting the avatar file under the /images/ path.",
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:24.168725924Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/sourcefabric/Newscoop/blob/3df835637609a5a42530b2a4611177c634ad6274/newscoop/library/Newscoop/Image/ImageService.php#L226",
"https://gist.github.com/V-Rico/82e9e52ac451dc20eef87b0999b3b1ee"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 382546,
"published_at": "2020-05-19T16:15:11.167+00:00"
}