CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedGetSimple CMS versions prior to 1.5 are vulnerable due to an insecure update handler in UpdateCE.php that allows remote code execution through the processing of malicious ZIP archives, as it fails to validate file types and extraction paths. This vulnerability can be exploited to write PHP files into web-accessible directories, potentially leading to full server compromise. Organizations using affected versions of GetSimple CMS should prioritize immediate updates to version 1.5 or later to mitigate this critical risk.
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Original NVD Description
GetSimple CMS is a content management system (CMS), and GetSimple CMS CE is the community edition of that CMS. Prior to version 1.5, the update handler in UpdateCE.php downloads a ZIP archive and extracts its contents into the web root without validating file types or extraction paths. Because PHP files are written into a web-accessible directory, an attacker who can cause a malicious archive to be processed achieves remote code execution as the web-server user. Entry names are also used unsafely, allowing directory traversal (../) to write files outside the intended extraction directory. This issue has been patched in version 1.5.