🛡️ CVE-2019-15954 — total4

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-77 OSV

9.5

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Total.js CMS RCE Vulnerability

An issue was discovered in Total.js CMS 12.0.0. An authenticated user with the widgets privilege can gain achieve Remote Command Execution (RCE) on the remote server by creating a malicious widget with a special tag containing JavaScript code that will be evaluated server side. In the process of evaluating the tag by the back-end, it is possible to escape the sandbox object by using the following payload: <script total>global.process.mainModule.require(child_process).exec(RCE);</script>

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2019-15954 is classified as CWE-77: Command Injection. User input is placed into a command that the system interprets, allowing extra commands to be appended to the intended one.

Affected software

CVE-2019-15954 is recorded against 1 package.

total4

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
seclists.org (Web)
packetstormsecurity.com (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL

CVSS Score 9.5

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE CWE-77

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2022-05-24

Updated 2026-08-12

Modified 2023-11-08

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
total4	—	—

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15954

WEB https://github.com/beerpwn/CVE/blob/master/Totaljs_disclosure_report/report_final.pdf

PACKAGE https://github.com/totaljs/cms

WEB https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/5

WEB http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154924/Total.js-CMS-12-Widget-JavaScript-Code-Injection.html

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