CVE-2022-24637 — Improper Privilege Management in Open Web Analytics

Description

Open Web Analytics (OWA) before 1.7.4 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain sensitive user information, which can be used to gain admin privileges by leveraging cache hashes. This occurs because files generated with '<?php (instead of the intended "<?php sequence) aren't handled by the PHP interpreter.

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Metasploit 1 module

Open Web Analytics 1.7.3 - Remote Code Execution (RCE)
exploit/multi/http/open_web_analytics_rce

Exploit-DB 1

Open Web Analytics 1.7.3 - Remote Code Execution EDB-51026 · webapps · Nov 11, 2022

GitHub 7 repositories

hupe1980/CVE-2022-24637 ★ 5 · Oct 8, 2022

Open Web Analytics (OWA) - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Lay0us/CVE-2022-24637 ★ 5 · Aug 30, 2022

Unauthenticated RCE in Open Web Analytics (OWA) 1.7.3
Pflegusch/CVE-2022-24637 ★ 4 · Mar 9, 2023

Open Web Analytics 1.7.3 - Remote Code Execution
icebreack/CVE-2022-24637 ★ 4 · Nov 15, 2022

FIxed exploit for CVE-2022-24637 (original xplt: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51026)
0xM4hm0ud/CVE-2022-24637 ★ 3 · Mar 26, 2023

Unauthenticated RCE in Open Web Analytics version <1.7.4
0xRyuk/CVE-2022-24637 ★ 1 · Aug 22, 2023

Open Web Analytics 1.7.3 - Remote Code Execution Exploit v2
PrinceAikinsBaidoo/CVE-2022-24637 ★ 0 · Sep 10, 2026

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Automated scanner template

A ready-made Nuclei template detects this vulnerability automatically. Vulnerabilities with public scanner templates are typically probed across the internet soon after the template appears — exposed systems should be patched first.

Open Web Analytics 1.7.3 - Remote Code Execution http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-24637.yaml

Source: projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates (MIT) — updated daily. Only links are listed.

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed	Record
Packagist	open-web-analytics/open-web-analytics	< 1.7.4	1.7.4	GHSA-pr9q-v585-qv2w