{"id":"CVE-2012-6498","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-6498","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:30:56.649Z","title":"Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in index.php in Atomymaxsite 2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file, as exploited in…","description":"Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in index.php in Atomymaxsite 2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file, as exploited in the wild in October 2012.","published":"2013-01-08T15:55:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:48:14.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["maxtom/atomymaxsite"],"epss":{"score":0.02025,"percentile":0.8089,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.02%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://thaicert.or.th/alerts/admin/2012/al2012ad025.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfvTCSS3LGY","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://thaicert.or.th/alerts/admin/2012/al2012ad025.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfvTCSS3LGY","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6498","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}