CVE-2017-11466

7.2 highEPSS 7.7%

High (7.2) in dotcms dotcms. EPSS 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Arbitrary file upload vulnerability in com/dotmarketing/servlets/AjaxFileUploadServlet.class in dotCMS 4.1.1 allows remote authenticated administrators to upload .jsp files to arbitrary locations via directory traversal sequences in the fieldName parameter to servlets/ajax_file_upload. This results in arbitrary code execution by requesting the .jsp file at a /assets URI.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.2 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-434
Published: 2017-07-20
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

dotcms:dotcms

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/33
https://github.com/dotCMS/core/issues/12131
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/143383/dotcms411-shell.txt
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jul/33
https://github.com/dotCMS/core/issues/12131

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