CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-1894

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A direct code injection vulnerability in FlatNuke 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by placing the code into the Referer header of an HTTP request, which causes the code to be injected into referer.php, which can then be accessed by the attacker.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can take control of the server, execute arbitrary commands, or access sensitive data.

Recommendation

Immediately update FlatNuke to the latest available version or apply a security patch to prevent code injection.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Direct code injection vulnerability in FlatNuke 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by placing the code into the Referer header of an HTTP request, which causes the code to be injected into referer.php, which can then be accessed by the attacker.

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