kunstmaan/media-bundle: Kunstmaan CMS: MediaBundle extension blacklist bypass allows authenticated administrators to upload executable PHP files leading to remote code execution
What fixes it
- 7.3.2kunstmaan/media-bundle, composerGitHub
composer require "kunstmaan/media-bundle:^7.3.2" - 7.3.2kunstmaan/bundles-cms, composerGitHub
composer require "kunstmaan/bundles-cms:^7.3.2" - 7.3.2kunstmaan/media-bundle, PackagistOSV
composer require "kunstmaan/media-bundle:^7.3.2" - 7.3.2kunstmaan/bundles-cms, PackagistOSV
composer require "kunstmaan/bundles-cms:^7.3.2"
A fixed version on one release line is not the upgrade target for every line. Check your exact version and any vendor backports.
Description
Summary
The MediaBundle blocks dangerous upload extensions with a blacklist that was matched case-sensitively, while the stored filename was lowercased afterwards. A file uploaded as webshell.pHp therefore bypassed the blacklist and was written to the web-accessible upload directory as webshell.php, where the web server executed it. Any authenticated backend user with access to the media section could obtain remote code execution.
Details
FileHandler::getFilePath() rewrote blacklisted extensions to .txt using a case-sensitive regex, and only then lowercased the extension when building the stored name — so the check ran against the attacker-controlled casing and the normalisation happened after it.
Two further weaknesses contributed:
- The default blacklist contained only
phpandhtaccess, leaving other
server-executable extensions (phtml, php5, phar, shtml, cgi, …) unblocked regardless of casing.
- Configured blacklist values were interpolated into the regex unescaped.
Impact
An authenticated user with access to the admin media section can upload a file that the web server executes as PHP. The uploaded file is reachable over HTTP without authentication, giving arbitrary code execution as the web server user.
Patches
Fixed in kunstmaan/media-bundle 7.3.2. The extension is now normalised before it is checked and compared with in_array(); the default blacklist is expanded to the full set of server-executable extensions; and a new opt-in allowed_extensions option allows projects to enforce a strict allow-list.
Note that the patch does not rename files already stored on disk. Sites should audit their media upload directory for existing files with an executable extension.
Workarounds
If you cannot upgrade, configure the web server to refuse to execute scripts in the media upload directory (for example a location block in nginx or php_flag engine off in Apache).
Text from GitHub Advisory Database
Affected versions 107
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, composer< 7.3.2GitHub
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, composer< 7.3.2GitHub
- KunstmaanBundlesCMSaffected: < 7.3.1CVE List
- bundles-cmsaffected: < 7.3.1CVE List
- media-bundleaffected: < 7.3.1CVE List
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagistfrom first release, fixed in 7.3.2OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.0.0OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.0.1OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.0.2OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.0.3OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.1.0OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.1.1OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.1.2OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.1.3OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.1.4OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.2.0OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.2.1OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.2.1.1OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.2.2OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.2.3OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.2.4OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.2.4.1OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.2.5OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.2.6OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.3.0OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.3.1OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.3.2OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.3.3OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.3.4OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.4.0OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.4.1OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.4.2OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.5.0OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.5.1OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.5.2OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.6.0OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.6.1OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.6.2OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist3.6.3OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist4.0.0OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist4.0.0-RC1OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist4.0.1OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist4.0.2OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist4.0.3OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist4.1.0OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist4.1.1OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist4.1.2OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist4.1.3OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist4.1.4OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist4.2.0OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist4.2.1OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist4.2.2OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist4.2.3OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist5.0.0OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist5.0.0-RC1OSV
- kunstmaan/media-bundle, Packagist5.0.0-RC2OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagistfrom first release, fixed in 7.3.2OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.0.0OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.0.1OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.0.2OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.0.3OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.1.0OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.1.1OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.1.2OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.1.3OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.1.4OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.2.0OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.2.1OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.2.1.1OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.2.2OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.2.3OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.2.4OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.2.4.1OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.2.5OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.2.6OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.3.0OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.3.1OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.3.2OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.3.3OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.3.4OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.4.0OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.4.1OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.4.2OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.5.0OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.5.1OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.5.2OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.6.0OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.6.1OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.6.2OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist3.6.3OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist4.0.0OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist4.0.0-RC1OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist4.0.1OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist4.0.2OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist4.0.3OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist4.1.0OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist4.1.1OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist4.1.2OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist4.1.3OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist4.1.4OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist4.2.0OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist4.2.1OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist4.2.2OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist4.2.3OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist5.0.0OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist5.0.0-RC1OSV
- kunstmaan/bundles-cms, Packagist5.0.0-RC2OSV
References 5
- github.com/Kunstmaan/KunstmaanBundlesCMS/commit/1bbdfdeac8e7e91506b1a9271360b9b68d7690d3Fixvia CVE List
- github.com/Kunstmaan/KunstmaanBundlesCMS/releases/tag/7.3.2Fixvia CVE List
- github.com/Kunstmaan/KunstmaanBundlesCMS/security/advisories/GHSA-p279-5wcv-45vqAdvisoryvia CVE List
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-p279-5wcv-45vqAdvisoryvia GitHub
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104890Referencevia GitHub