An issue was discovered in Total.js CMS 12.0.0. An authenticated user with the Pages privilege can conduct a path traversal attack (../) to include .html files that are outside the permitted directory. Also, if a page contains a template directive, then the directive will be server side processed. Thus, if a user can control the content of a .html file, then they can inject a payload with a malicious template directive to gain Remote Command Execution. The exploit will work only with the .html extension.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15952
• https://github.com/beerpwn/CVE/blob/master/Totaljs_disclosure_report/report_final.pdf
• https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/2