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CVE-2023-53952

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-53952 describes a remote code execution vulnerability in Dotclear 2.25.3, allowing authenticated attackers to upload malicious PHP files with a .phar extension via the blog post creation interface. This flaw enables arbitrary code execution on the server when the uploaded file is accessed. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires only low privileges, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there public exploit modules available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.25.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:dotclear:dotclear:2.25.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

8.7HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
HIGH
VS Integrity
HIGH
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0099 is in the 55th percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

dotclear.org
Product
exploit-db.com / exploits/51353
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
vulncheck.com / advisories/dotclear-authenticated-remote-code-execution-via-file-upload
ExploitThird Party Advisory