CVE-2021-27230 (GCVE-0-2021-27230)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-15 22:52
Modified
2024-08-03 20:48
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
ExpressionEngine before 5.4.2 and 6.x before 6.0.3 allows PHP Code Injection by certain authenticated users who can leverage Translate::save() to write to an _lang.php file under the system/user/language directory.
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