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CVE-2011-4106

37
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-4106 describes a critical vulnerability in TimThumb (timthumb.php) versions prior to 2.0, affecting various WordPress plugins that utilize this library. The flaw allows remote attackers to upload and execute arbitrary code by manipulating the 'src' parameter with a whitelisted domain, bypassing validation. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring moderate attack complexity but enabling full confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. Exploitation has been observed in the wild, with public exploit code available on ExploitDB, though it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.99CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:binarymoon:timthumb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
11.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-17872 · Sep 19, 2011
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1162 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

code.google.com / p/timthumb/issues/detail
ExploitPatch
markmaunder.com / 2011/08/01/zero-day-vulnerability-in-many-wordpress-themes
markmaunder.com / 2011/08/02/technical-details-and-scripts-of-the-wordpress-timthumb-php-hack
Patch
binarymoon.co.uk / 2011/08/timthumb-2
exploit-db.com / exploits/17602
Exploit
exploit-db.com / exploits/17872
Exploit
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/11/03/4