In this technical blog post we examine a critical vulnerability in the core of the TYPO3 CMS which was detected by our static code analysis tool RIPS (CVE-2019-12747). A reliable exploit allows the execution of arbitrary PHP code on the underlying system as authenticated user.

Pydio is a popular file sharing solution used by enterprises and governments around the world. It suffered from a highly critical vulnerability that allowed unauthenticated attackers to compromise the entire file sharing server and to execute arbitrary code on the remote machine (CVE-2018-20718). Find out more about the impact and technical details in our blog post.

Moodle is a widely-used open-source e-Learning software with more than 127 million users allowing teachers and students to digitally manage course activities and exchange learning material, often deployed by large universities. In this post we will examine the technical intrinsics of a critical vulnerability in the previous Moodle release detected by RIPS Code Analysis (CVE-2018-1133).

PrestaShop is one of the most popular e-commerce solutions. Our leading security analysis solution RIPS detected a highly critical vulnerability that allows to execute arbitrary code on any installation with version <= 1.7.2.4. In this technical blog post we present the vulnerability and the exploitation technique that could have been misused by attackers (CVE-2018-20717).

LimeSurvey is an open source and commercial web application that enables its users to quickly design and setup scalable surveys. RIPS automatically detected two vulnerabilities in LimeSurvey < 2.72.3: An unauthenticated persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2017-18358) and an authenticated arbitrary file write vulnerability which can be chained.