GetSimple CMS: CSRF, SSRF, and Unrestricted Zip Extraction
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Tampering, Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-352 and CWE-434.
Summary
GetSimple CMS is a content management system (CMS), and GetSimple CMS CE is the community edition of that CMS. Prior to version 1.5, the update handler in UpdateCE.php downloads a ZIP archive and extracts its contents into the web root without validating file types or extraction paths. Because PHP files are written into a web-accessible directory, an attacker who can cause a malicious archive to be processed achieves remote code execution as the web-server user. Entry names are also used unsafely, allowing directory traversal (../) to write files outside the intended extraction directory. This issue has been patched in version 1.5.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GetSimpleCMS-CE | GetSimpleCMS-CE | before 1.5 | 1.5 | Patch available | CNA |
- GetSimpleCMS-CE VendorGetSimpleCMS-CE Affected before 1.5 Fixed in 1.5 Patch available CNA
CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1
Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:getsimple-ce:getsimple_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | — | — | GetSimpleCMS-CE |
- cpe:2.3:a:getsimple-ce:getsimple_cms:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·GetSimpleCMS-CE
Remediation
- Fix · CNA GetSimpleCMS-CE (GetSimpleCMS-CE) Fixed in 1.5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-56660
References
More GetSimpleCMS-CE vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-36775 GetSimple CMS CE 3.3.19 suffers from arbitrary code execution in the template editing… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-38921 GetSimple CMS: Predictable Password Reset Password Allows Administrator Account Takeover CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2025-30771 GetSimple CMS RCE in Edit component CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-40846 GetSimple CMS: Missing CSRF protection in UpdateCE allows forging a privileged server-side update request CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6
- TI-2024-36777 GetSimple CMS CE 3.3.19 is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in the backend plugin module. CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-50122 GetSimple CMS: Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the "title" parameter in admin/components.php CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
Sources
This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Sources and licences