CVE-2026-48946

Summary

The K2 frontend article-attachment upload path accepts files whose extension is .php, and Apache's standard mod_php matches \.php$ and executes them under the K2 web user. A K2 Author can upload a shell.php, then fetch /media/k2/attachments/shell.php and execute arbitrary PHP code in the web server's context.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
getk2.orgK2 extension for Joomla1.0-2.26affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-434: CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References