CVE-2005-3048

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in PhpMyFaq 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or include arbitrary PHP files via a .. (dot dot) in the LANGCODE parameter, which also allows direct code injection via the User Agent field in a request packet, which can be activated by using LANGCODE to reference the user tracking data file.

Affected products

thorsten phpMyFAQ: 1.5.1

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112749230124091&w=2
http://rgod.altervista.org/phpmyfuck151.html
http://www.osvdb.org/19672
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112749230124091&w=2
http://rgod.altervista.org/phpmyfuck151.html
http://www.osvdb.org/19672

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