CVE-2005-2781

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-09-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Avatar upload feature in FUD Forum before 2.7.0 does not properly verify uploaded files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a file with a .php extension that contains image data followed by PHP code.

Affected products

Ilia Alshanetsky Fudforum: 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2.0, 2.2.1 (+33)

References

http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=5470&start=0&
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112534235403406&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/16627/
http://secunia.com/advisories/20203
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1063
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500406/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14678
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22076
http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=5470&start=0&
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112534235403406&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/16627/
http://secunia.com/advisories/20203

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