CVE-2026-48030 PoC — Pheditor: OS Command Injection in terminal handler via unsanitized 'dir' parameter (CWE-78)

Source

https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2026/CVE-2026-48030.yaml

Associated Vulnerability

Title: Pheditor: OS Command Injection in terminal handler via unsanitized 'dir' parameter (CWE-78) (CVE-2026-48030)
Description:Pheditor is a single-file editor and file manager written in PHP. From version 2.0.1 to before version 2.0.4, an OS Command Injection vulnerability in the terminal action handler allows any authenticated user to execute arbitrary OS commands by injecting shell metacharacters into the 'dir' POST parameter, completely bypassing the TERMINAL_COMMANDS whitelist and achieving full Remote Code Execution with web server privileges. This issue has been patched in version 2.0.4.

Description

Pheditor 2.0.1 to - 2.0.4 contains an OS command injection caused by improper sanitization of the 'dir' POST parameter in the terminal action handler, letting authenticated users execute arbitrary OS commands with web server privileges.

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