CVE-2005-4135

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-12-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Direct static code injection vulnerability in includes/newtopic.php in SimpleBBS 1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the Host header (possibly the name parameter or variable), which is then written to data/topics.php.

Affected products

Simplemedia Simplebbs: 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/17949
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015323
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/418838/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15764
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2807
http://secunia.com/advisories/17949
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015323
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/418838/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15764
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2807

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