CVE-2001-1524

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2001-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in PHP-Nuke 5.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) uname parameter in user.php, (2) ttitle, letter and file parameters in modules.php, (3) subject, story and storyext parameters in submit.php, (4) upload parameter in admin.php and (5) fname parameter in friend.php.

Affected products

Francisco Burzi Php-Nuke: 3.0, 4.0, 4.3, 4.4, 4.4.1a, 5.0 (+5)

References

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/245691
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/245875
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/243545
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/246603
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpnuke/PHP-Nuke-5.5.tar.gz
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7654.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3609
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/245691
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/245875
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/243545
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/246603
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpnuke/PHP-Nuke-5.5.tar.gz

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