{"id":79475,"date":"2026-06-08T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-40519-nginx-proxy-manager-authenticated-rce-via-setupcertbotplugins\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T23:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T20:17:00","slug":"cve-2026-40519-nginx-proxy-manager-authenticated-rce-via-setupcertbotplugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-40519-nginx-proxy-manager-authenticated-rce-via-setupcertbotplugins\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-40519 &#8211; Nginx Proxy Manager Authenticated RCE via setupCertbotPlugins()"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-40519<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 8, 2026, 8:17 p.m. | 17\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Nginx Proxy Manager versions 2.9.14 through 2.15.1, fixed in commit a5db5ed, contain an authenticated remote code execution vulnerability via OS command injection in the setupCertbotPlugins() function in backend\/setup.js, allowing attackers with certificates:manage permission to execute arbitrary commands by storing a malicious payload in the dns_provider_credentials field. The user-controlled dns_provider_credentials value is interpolated directly into a shell command executed via child_process.exec() without sanitization or escaping, causing the injected command to execute upon backend restart.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 7.7 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-40519 Published : June 8, 2026, 8:17 p.m. | 17\u00a0minutes ago Description :Nginx Proxy Manager versions 2.9.14 through 2.15.1, fixed in commit a5db5ed, contain an authenticated remote code execution vulnerability via OS command injection in the setupCertbotPlugins() function in backend\/setup.js, allowing attackers with certificates:manage permission to execute arbitrary commands by storing a malicious &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}