CVE-2012-2435: Pligg CMS

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the captcha module in Pligg CMS before 1.2.2 allows remote authenticated users to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the captcha parameter to module.php, as demonstrated by cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

Affected products

• Pligg Pligg CMS: any version; up to and including 1.2.1; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; …

Published 2012-05-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.