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CVE-2005-0828

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

highlight.php in (1) RUNCMS 1.1A, (2) CIAMOS 0.9.2 RC1, (3) e-Xoops 1.05 Rev3, and possibly other products based on e-Xoops (exoops), allows remote attackers to read arbitrary PHP files by specifying the pathname in the file parameter, as demonstrated by reading database configuration information from mainfile.php.

Affected products

• Ciamos: 0.9.2_rc1
• E-Xoops: 1.05r3
• Runcms: 1.1a

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111117241923006&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111125645312693&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14641
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14648
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1013485
• http://www.ihsteam.com/download/advisory/Exoops%20highlight%20hole.txt
• http://www.ihsteam.com/download/sections/runcms%20advisory%20-%20eng.pdf
• http://www.osvdb.org/14890
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12848
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19754
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111117241923006&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111125645312693&w=2

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