CVE-2007-5898

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The (1) htmlentities and (2) htmlspecialchars functions in PHP before 5.2.5 accept partial multibyte sequences, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, a different issue than CVE-2006-5465.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.2.4

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27648
http://secunia.com/advisories/27659
http://secunia.com/advisories/27864
http://secunia.com/advisories/28249
http://secunia.com/advisories/28658
http://secunia.com/advisories/30040
http://secunia.com/advisories/30828
http://secunia.com/advisories/31119
http://secunia.com/advisories/31124
http://secunia.com/advisories/31200
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018934

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