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Medium severity6.3NVD Advisory· Published Jun 25, 2026· Updated Jun 28, 2026

CVE-2026-48946

CVE-2026-48946

Description

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 products

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  • Joomlaworks/K2
    cpe:2.3:a:joomlaworks:k2:*:*:*:*:*:joomla\!:*:*
    Range: <=2.26

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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