PT-2025-32550 · Phptax · Phptax

Published 2025-08-11 · Updated 2025-08-11 · CVE-2012-10037

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

9.3

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PhpTax version 0.8

Description: PhpTax version 0.8 contains a remote code execution issue in drawimage.php. The pfilez GET parameter is passed to the exec() function without proper sanitization. This allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary shell commands, resulting in code execution within the web server's context. Authentication is not required to exploit this issue.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-10037

Affected Products

Phptax

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-10037 · Security Note
• https://exploit-db.com/exploits/21833 · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/29686 · Telegram Post
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/phptax · Note
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/phptax_exec.rb · Note
• https://exploit-db.com/exploits/21665 · Note