An issue was discovered in Cuppa CMS Versions Before 31 Jan 2021 allows authenticated attackers to gain escalated privileges via a crafted POST request using the user_group_id_field parameter.
The file manager option in CuppaCMS before 2019-11-12 allows an authenticated attacker to upload a malicious file within an image extension and through a custom request using the rename function provided by the file manager is able to modify the image extension into PHP resulting in remote arbitrary code execution.