CVE-2022-40777 — Interspire Email Marketer through 6

Interspire Email Marketer through 6.5.0 allows arbitrary file upload via a surveys_submit.php "create survey and submit survey" operation, which can cause a .php file to be accessible under a /admin/temp/surveys/ URI. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix

01What is this vulnerability?

Interspire Email Marketer through 6.5.0 allows arbitrary file upload via a surveys_submit.php "create survey and submit survey" operation, which can cause a .php file to be accessible under a /admin/temp/surveys/ URI. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-19550.

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

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-10-11T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T12:28:42.661Z

09References

• twitter.com — https://twitter.com/huyvinhptit
• www.interspire.com — https://www.interspire.com/security-bulletin-20220918/