CVE-2005-2540 EXPLOIT
5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 6.1% (pctl 93)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
CRLF injection vulnerability in FlatNuke 2.5.5 and possibly earlier versions allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP commands via an ASCII char 13 (carriage return) in the signature field, which is injected into a PHP script without a preceding comment character, which can then be executed by a direct request.
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| EPSS | 6.1% — more likely to be exploited than 93% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2005-08-10 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| flatnuke | flatnuke |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Flatnuke 2.5.5 - Remote Code Execution | 2005-08-08 |
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112327238030127&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16330
- http://www.osvdb.org/18554
- http://www.rgod.altervista.org/flatnuke.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14485
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21709
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112327238030127&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16330
- http://www.osvdb.org/18554
- http://www.rgod.altervista.org/flatnuke.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14485
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21709
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