CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-0267

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Vulnerability in FlatNuke 2.5.1 allows a remote attacker to create an administrator account by injecting carriage returns and #10 characters in the url_avatar field in index.php, which are interpreted as a sensitive directive.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can gain unauthorized administrative access to the system, leading to full compromise of the application and potentially the entire server.

Recommendation

Immediately update FlatNuke to the latest available version or apply a security patch that filters or encodes special characters in the url_avatar field.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

index.php in FlatNuke 2.5.1 allows remote attackers to create an administrator account via carriage returns and #10 in the url_avatar field, which is interpreted as a sensitive directive.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS