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Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CVE-2021-38745

Medium
6.8/10

Summary

Chamilo LMS v1.11.14 was discovered to contain a zero click code injection vulnerability which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted plugin. This vulnerability is triggered through user interaction with the attacker's profile page.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • HIGH
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-94 - Code Injection

Code injection is a type of vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability fully compromises the machine and can cause a wide variety of security issues, such as unauthorized access to sensitive information, manipulation of data, denial of service attacks etc. Code injection is different from command injection in the fact that it is limited by the functionality of the injected language (e.g. PHP), as opposed to command injection, which leverages existing code to execute commands, usually within the context of a shell.

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