CVE-2010-4335: Cakefoundation Cakephp

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 55.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The _validatePost function in libs/controller/components/security.php in CakePHP 1.3.x through 1.3.5 and 1.2.8 allows remote attackers to modify the internal Cake cache and execute arbitrary code via a crafted data[_Token][fields] value that is processed by the unserialize function, as demonstrated by modifying the file_map cache to execute arbitrary local files.

Affected products

• Cakefoundation Cakephp: version 1.3.0 only
• Cakephp Cakephp: version 1.2.8 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.3.0 only; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.3.2 only; version 1.3.3 only; …

Published 2011-01-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.