CVE-2012-1468: Pkp Open Journal Systems

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in Open Journal Systems before 2.3.7 allows remote authenticated users with the Author Role permission to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension that is not ".php", then accessing it via a direct request to the file in submission/original/ in the associated article directory, as demonstrated using .pHp, .asp, and other extensions.

Affected products

• Pkp Open Journal Systems: up to and including 2.3.6

Published 2012-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.