CVE-2019-11231

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekWeaponized

Also known asEUVD-2019-2930 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationNo fix on record since 2019: if the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high; if it no longer does, isolate the affected system on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, or retire the product (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 72%
  • Public exploit code is available (Metasploit, Exploit-DB, marked verified by Exploit-DB)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 72%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified)Exposed services: Not assessed

No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2019 — if the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names; if not, isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product.

The CVE record's description, written by its CNA (MITRE Corporation), states the affected versions: "An issue was discovered in GetSimple CMS through 3.3.15." No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

An issue was discovered in GetSimple CMS through 3.3.15. insufficient input sanitation in the theme-edit.php file allows upload of files with arbitrary content (PHP code, for example). This vulnerability is triggered by an authenticated user; however, authentication can be bypassed. According to the official documentation for installation step 10, an admin is required to upload all the files, including the .htaccess files, and run a health check. However, what is overlooked is that the Apache HTTP Server by default no longer enables the AllowOverride directive, leading to data/users/admin.xml password exposure. The passwords are hashed but this can be bypassed by starting with the data/other/authorization.xml API key. This allows one to target the session state, since they decided to roll their own implementation. The cookie_name is crafted information that can be leaked from the frontend (site name and version). If a someone leaks the API key and the admin username, then they can bypass authentication. To do so, they need to supply a cookie based on an SHA-1 computation of this known information. The vulnerability exists in the admin/theme-edit.php file. This file checks for forms submissions via POST requests, and for the csrf nonce. If the nonce sent is correct, then the file provided by the user is uploaded. There is a path traversal allowing write access outside the jailed themes directory root. Exploiting the traversal is not necessary because the .htaccess file is ignored. A contributing factor is that there isn't another check on the extension before saving the file, with the assumption that the parameter content is safe. This allows the creation of web accessible and executable files with arbitrary content.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
73
EG Risk 73/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation72% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2019. If the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high; if it no longer does, isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, or retire the product.
EPSS PROB
72%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
72% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says. In the directive's words, “Fix on system upgrade” means that, “unless conditions change”, the vulnerability “should be remediated the next time the vulnerable asset receives a scheduled major upgrade or rebuild”: its timelines are “dynamic as facts change”, and a KEV listing shortens them.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2019. If the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high; if it no longer does, isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) on your normal schedule at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, or retire the product.

Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: it starts when an agency identifies the flaw on an asset and updates the CDM Agency and Federal Dashboard, and the directive counts patching, decommissioning the system or another action as remediation. Until a fixed release is applied, mitigate as this page's verdict says. In the directive's words, “Fix on system upgrade” means that, “unless conditions change”, the vulnerability “should be remediated the next time the vulnerable asset receives a scheduled major upgrade or rebuild”: its timelines are “dynamic as facts change”, and a KEV listing shortens them.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

May 22, 2019

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Oct 5, 2026
No fix on record since 2019.
Web page

SSD Advisory - GetSimple CMS Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution - SSD Secure Disclosure

https://ssd-disclosure.com/?p=3899&preview=true

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 18× in last 7d / 64× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 176 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 76 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 11:39 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-02 11:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-11-01 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  4. 2026-11-01 12:52 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-11-01 12:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-10-31 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  7. 2026-10-31 14:05 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-31 14:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-10-30 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  10. 2026-10-30 15:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-10-29 16:30 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-29 16:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-28 17:41 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-28 17:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  16. 2026-10-27 18:49 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-27 18:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-10-27 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  19. 2026-10-26 20:03 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-26 20:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  21. 2026-10-26 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  22. 2026-10-25 19:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-25 19:11 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-25 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-24 20:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  2. 2026-10-24 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  3. 2026-10-23 21:39 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-23 21:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-10-22 22:52 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-22 22:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  8. 2026-10-22 00:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-10-21 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  10. 2026-10-21 01:16 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-21 01:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-20 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  13. 2026-10-20 02:29 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-20 02:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-19 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  16. 2026-10-19 01:57 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-19 01:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  19. 2026-10-18 03:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-10-17 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  21. 2026-10-17 04:19 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-17 04:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-16 05:31 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-16 05:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-15 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  26. 2026-10-15 03:55 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-15 03:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  28. 2026-10-14 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  29. 2026-10-13 23:59 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-13 23:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  31. 2026-10-13 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
  32. 2026-10-12 20:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-hx55-22f6-mp64 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  33. 2026-10-12 20:04 UTCEG score recompute
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  42. 2026-09-28 05:32 UTCOSV refresh
  43. 2026-09-26 15:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 72% · 99th percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry). No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2019. If the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names; if it no longer does, isolate the affected system or retire the product.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-46880✓ verified
    Published May 20, 2019

    GetSimpleCMS - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/multi/http/getsimplecms_unauth_code_exec✓ verified
    Published May 16, 2019

    GetSimpleCMS Unauthenticated RCE

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2019-11231?
CVE-2019-11231 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on May 22, 2019. An issue was discovered in GetSimple CMS through 3.3.15. insufficient input sanitation in the theme-edit.php file allows upload of files with arbitrary content (PHP code, for example). This vulnerability is triggered by an authenticated user; however, authentication can be bypassed. According to…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2019-11231 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2019-11231 was published on May 22, 2019. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of November 21, 2024; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2019-11231 actively exploited?
CVE-2019-11231 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: a Metasploit module exists for it, and Exploit-DB marks a public exploit for it as verified. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 72% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2019-11231?
CVE-2019-11231 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2019-11231?
No fix for CVE-2019-11231 has been recorded since its CVE record was published in 2019. If the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names; if it no longer does, isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product. The CVE record's description, written by its CNA (MITRE Corporation), states the affected versions: "An issue was discovered in GetSimple CMS through 3.3.15." No release containing a fix is confirmed on record.

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