# CVE-2022-45291: PWS Personal Weather Station Dashboard (PWS\_Dashboard) LTS December 2020 (2012\_lts) allows remote code execution by injecting PHP code into

- Severity: CVSS 7.2 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-04-25 · Updated: 2025-02-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

PWS Personal Weather Station Dashboard (PWS_Dashboard) LTS December 2020 (2012_lts) allows remote code execution by injecting PHP code into settings.php. Attacks can use the PWS_printfile.php, PWS_frame_text.php, PWS_listfile.php, PWS_winter.php, and PWS_easyweathersetup.php endpoints. A contributing factor is a hardcoded login password of support, which is not documented. (This is not the same as the documented setup password, which is 12345.) The issue was fixed in late 2022.

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## References

- https://pwsdashboard.com/
- https://cavefxa.com/posts/cve-2022-45291/

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