Detections
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CVE-2023-47271
medium
Description
PKP-WAL (aka PKP Web Application Library or pkp-lib) before 3.3.0-16, as used in Open Journal Systems (OJS) and other products, does not verify that the file named in an XML document (used for the native import/export plugin) is an image file, before trying to use it for an issue cover image.
References
https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/9464
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/23
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176255/PKP-WAL-3.4.0-3-Remote-Code-Execution.html