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CVE-2005-1921

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 79.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-07-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Eval injection vulnerability in PEAR XML_RPC 1.3.0 and earlier (aka XML-RPC or xmlrpc) and PHPXMLRPC (aka XML-RPC For PHP or php-xmlrpc) 1.1 and earlier, as used in products such as (1) WordPress, (2) Serendipity, (3) Drupal, (4) egroupware, (5) MailWatch, (6) TikiWiki, (7) phpWebSite, (8) Ampache, and others, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via an XML file, which is not properly sanitized before being used in an eval statement.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 3.1
• Drupal: before 4.5.4; from 4.6.0 before 4.6.2 — fixed in 4.5.4, 4.6.2
• Gggeek Phpxmlrpc: through 1.1
• php Xml Rpc: through 1.3.0
• Tiki: before 1.8.5 — fixed in 1.8.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Drupal 4.5.4, 4.6.2; Tiki 1.8.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112008638320145&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112015336720867&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112605112027335&w=2
• http://pear.php.net/package/XML_RPC/download/1.3.1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15810
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15852
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15855
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15861
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15872
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15883
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15884
• http://secunia.com/advisories/15895

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