CVE-2017-1000453 is a critical vulnerability affecting CMS Made Simple versions 2.1.6 and 2.2. It allows for unauthenticated PHP code execution due to Smarty templating injection in core modules. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cmsmadesimple:cms_made_simple:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cmsmadesimple:cms_made_simple:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.