CVE-2006-5291

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-10-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in admin/includes/spaw/spaw_control.class.php in Download-Engine 1.4.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the spaw_root parameter. NOTE: CVE analysis suggests that this issue is actually in a third party product, SPAW Editor PHP Edition, so this issue is probably a duplicate of CVE-2006-4656.

Affected products

Alex Downloadengine: 1.4.2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22383
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1723
http://spaw.cvs.sourceforge.net/spaw/spaw/docs/ChangeLog.txt?view=markup
http://spaw.cvs.sourceforge.net/spaw/spaw/spaw_control.class.php?r1=1.19&r2=1.20
http://spaw.cvs.sourceforge.net/spaw/spaw/spaw_control.class.php?r1=1.25&r2=1.26
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448450/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20500
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4025
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29493
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2521
http://secunia.com/advisories/22383
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1723

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