CVE-2005-4226

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-12-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple "potential" SQL injection vulnerabilities in phpWebThings 1.4 Patched might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via (1) the ref parameter in download.php, (2) the direction, msg, sforum, reason, subname, and toform parameters in forum.php, (3) the msg and forum parameters in forum_edit.php, (4) the msg and forum parameters in forum_write.php, (5) the tekst parameter in guestbook.php, (6) the menuoption parameter in index.php, and the (7) sel_avatar parameter in myaccount.php. NOTE: the forum.php/forum vector is already identified by CVE-2005-3585.

Affected products

Phpwebthings: through 1.4

References

http://glide.stanford.edu/yichen/research/sec.pdf
http://secunia.com/advisories/18011/
http://www.osvdb.org/21650
http://www.osvdb.org/21651
http://www.osvdb.org/21652
http://www.osvdb.org/21653
http://www.osvdb.org/21654
http://www.osvdb.org/21655
http://www.osvdb.org/21656
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419280/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419487/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2860

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