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CVE-2005-2498

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-08-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Eval injection vulnerability in PHPXMLRPC 1.1.1 and earlier (PEAR XML-RPC for PHP), as used in multiple products including (1) Drupal, (2) phpAdsNew, (3) phpPgAds, and (4) phpgroupware, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via certain nested XML tags in a PHP document that should not be nested, which are injected into an eval function call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1921.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 3.1
• Gggeek Phpxmlrpc: through 1.1.1

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112412415822890&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112431497300344&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112605112027335&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16431
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16432
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16441
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16460
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16465
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16468
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16469
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16491
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16550

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