CVE-2006-3136

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: 2006-06-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in Nucleus 3.23 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL the DIR_LIBS parameter in (1) path/action.php, and to files in path/nucleus including (2) media.php, (3) /xmlrpc/server.php, and (4) /xmlrpc/api_metaweblog.inc.php. NOTE: this is a similar vulnerability to CVE-2006-2583. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by third parties, who state that the DIR_LIBS parameter is defined in an include file before being used

Affected products

Nucleus Group Nucleus Cms: 3.0, 3.0_1, 3.0_rc, 3.1, 3.2, 3.21 (+2)

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1120
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016325
http://www.osvdb.org/27502
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437423/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437986/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18475
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2408
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1120
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016325
http://www.osvdb.org/27502
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437423/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437986/100/200/threaded

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