CVE-2022-33941
PowerCMS XMLRPC API provided by Alfasado Inc. contains a command injection vulnerability. Sending a specially crafted message by POST…
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- jpcert
Description
PowerCMS XMLRPC API provided by Alfasado Inc. contains a command injection vulnerability. Sending a specially crafted message by POST method to PowerCMS XMLRPC API may allow arbitrary Perl script execution, and an arbitrary OS command may be executed through it. Affected products/versions are as follows: PowerCMS 6.021 and earlier (PowerCMS 6 Series), PowerCMS 5.21 and earlier (PowerCMS 5 Series), and PowerCMS 4.51 and earlier (PowerCMS 4 Series). Note that all versions of PowerCMS 3 Series and earlier which are unsupported (End-of-Life, EOL) are also affected by this vulnerability.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
- OS Command Injection
- CWE-78 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-78 and its CVEs
Affected products
Alfasado Inc. · PowerCMS XMLRPC API
- affected PowerCMS 6.021 and earlier (PowerCMS 6 Series), PowerCMS 5.21 and earlier (PowerCMS 5 Series), PowerCMS 4.51 and earlier (PowerCMS 4 Series), and PowerCMS 3 Series and earlier which are unsupported (End-of-Life, EOL)
References (2)
- https://www.powercms.jp/news/xmlrpc-api-provision-202208.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN76024879/index.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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