CVE-2022-33941: Alfasado Powercms

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PowerCMS XMLRPC API provided by Alfasado Inc. contains a command injection vulnerability. Sending a specially crafted message by POST method to PowerCMS XMLRPC API may allow arbitrary Perl script execution, and an arbitrary OS command may be executed through it. Affected products/versions are as follows: PowerCMS 6.021 and earlier (PowerCMS 6 Series), PowerCMS 5.21 and earlier (PowerCMS 5 Series), and PowerCMS 4.51 and earlier (PowerCMS 4 Series). Note that all versions of PowerCMS 3 Series and earlier which are unsupported (End-of-Life, EOL) are also affected by this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Alfasado Powercms: up to and including 4.51; from 5.0, up to and including 5.21; from 6.0, up to and including 6.021

Published 2022-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.