Description
An arbitrary file upload issue exists in Mara CMS 7.5. In order to exploit this, an attacker must have a valid authenticated (admin/manager) session and make a codebase/dir.php?type=filenew request to upload PHP code to codebase/handler.php.
Public exploits
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Metasploit 1 module
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MaraCMS Arbitrary PHP File Upload
exploit/multi/http/maracms_upload_exec
GitHub 1 repository
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Groppoxx/CVE-2020-25042-PoC ★ 5 · May 17, 2026
PoC for CVE-2020-25042: automated Mara CMS 7.5 authenticated PHP upload to RCE, with login hash handling, shell reuse, custom payload support, and clean CLI output.
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