CVE-2005-1621

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the pnModFunc function in pnMod.php for PostNuke 0.750 through 0.760rc4 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the func parameter to index.php.

Affected products

Postnuke Software Foundation Postnuke: 0.750, 0.760_rc2, 0.760_rc3, 0.760_rc4

References

http://cvs.postnuke.com/viewcvs.cgi/Historic_PostNuke_Library/postnuke-devel/html/includes/pnMod.php.diff?r1=1.47&r2=1.48
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111627124301526&w=2
http://news.postnuke.com/Article2690.html
http://news.postnuke.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2691
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0553
http://cvs.postnuke.com/viewcvs.cgi/Historic_PostNuke_Library/postnuke-devel/html/includes/pnMod.php.diff?r1=1.47&r2=1.48
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111627124301526&w=2
http://news.postnuke.com/Article2690.html
http://news.postnuke.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2691
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0553

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