CVE-2012-10037

published 2025-08-11

CVE-2012-10037: PhpTax version 0.8 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in drawimage.php. The pfilez GET parameter is unsafely passed to the exec() function without…

Priority P2 69 critical 9.3 CVSS 4.0

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EXPLOIT

PhpTax version 0.8 contains a remote code execution vulnerability in drawimage.php. The pfilez GET parameter is unsafely passed to the exec() function without sanitization. A remote attacker can inject arbitrary shell commands, leading to code execution under the web server's context. No authentication is required.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
phptax	phptax	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

path drawimage.php↗

other pfilez↗

• → Monitor HTTP GET requests to drawimage.php containing shell metacharacters or command injection payloads in the pfilez parameter ↗
• → No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability; treat any unauthenticated request to drawimage.php with a suspicious pfilez value as high-priority ↗
• → Alert on web server process spawning unexpected child shell processes (e.g., /bin/sh, cmd.exe) originating from the PHP/web server process, consistent with exec() abuse ↗

• · Exploitation targets PhpTax version 0.8 specifically; verify version before applying detections to avoid false positives on other versions ↗
• · The vulnerable code path is triggered during PDF generation via the icondrawpng() function; detections should focus on that specific function/file context ↗

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