$ cve CVE-2001-1524 JSON

CVE-2001-1524 EXPLOIT

4.3

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 2% (pctl 80)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in PHP-Nuke 5.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) uname parameter in user.php, (2) ttitle, letter and file parameters in modules.php, (3) subject, story and storyext parameters in submit.php, (4) upload parameter in admin.php and (5) fname parameter in friend.php.

Scoring

CVSS	4.3 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS	2.01% — more likely to be exploited than 80% of all CVEs
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2001-12-31
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (1)

Vendor	Product
francisco burzi	php-nuke

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	PHP-Nuke 1.0/2.5/3.0/4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x - 'user.php?uname' Cross-Site Scripting	2001-12-03
exploit-db	PHP-Nuke 1.0/2.5/3.0/4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x - 'modules.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities	2001-12-03

References

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