CVE-2018-10522 — In CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) through 2

In CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) through 2.2.7, the "file view" operation in the admin dashboard contains a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability, exploitable by ordinary users, because the product exposes unrestricted access to the PHP file_get_contents function.

01What is this vulnerability?

In CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) through 2.2.7, the "file view" operation in the admin dashboard contains a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability, exploitable by ordinary users, because the product exposes unrestricted access to the PHP file_get_contents function.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-04-27T18:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-17T01:35:50.145Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/itodaro/cmsms_cve/blob/master/README.md