VYPR
High severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 27, 2026· Updated Jul 28, 2026

Pheditor: Incomplete command sanitization in terminal feature allows RCE via pipe operator, backtick substitution, and newline injection

CVE-2026-55578

Description

Pheditor is a single-file editor and file manager written in PHP. From version 2.0.1 to before version 2.0.6, the terminal feature in Pheditor uses an incomplete character blocklist to sanitize user-supplied commands before passing them to shell_exec(). After the fix for GHSA-9643-6xjp-vx57 (which added $ to the blocklist), the characters | (single pipe), ` (backtick), and the newline byte (0x0A) remain unblocked. An authenticated user with the terminal permission (enabled by default) can leverage any of these to bypass the TERMINAL_COMMANDS allowlist and execute arbitrary OS commands as the web server user. This issue has been patched in version 2.0.6.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
pheditor/pheditorPackagist
>= 2.0.1, < 2.0.62.0.6

Affected products

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Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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