CVE-2005-3557

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-11-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in admin/defaults.php in PHPlist 2.10.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the selected%5B%5D parameter in an HTTP POST request.

Affected products

Tincan Phplist: through 2.10.1

References

http://osvdb.org/20569
http://secunia.com/advisories/17476
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/416005/30/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15350
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2005-11-001.txt
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2345
http://osvdb.org/20569
http://secunia.com/advisories/17476
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/416005/30/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15350
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2005-11-001.txt
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2345

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