$ cve CVE-2006-2828 JSON

CVE-2006-2828 EXPLOIT

6.4

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 2.5% (pctl 84)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Global variable overwrite vulnerability in PHP-Nuke allows remote attackers to conduct remote PHP file inclusion attacks via a modified phpbb_root_path parameter to the admin scripts (1) index.php, (2) admin_ug_auth.php, (3) admin_board.php, (4) admin_disallow.php, (5) admin_forumauth.php, (6) admin_groups.php, (7) admin_ranks.php, (8) admin_styles.php, (9) admin_user_ban.php, (10) admin_words.php, (11) admin_avatar.php, (12) admin_db_utilities.php, (13) admin_forum_prune.php, (14) admin_forums.php, (15) admin_mass_email.php, (16) admin_smilies.php, (17) admin_ug_auth.php, and (18) admin_users.php, which overwrites $phpbb_root_path when the import_request_variables function is executed after $phpbb_root_path has been initialized to a static value.

Scoring

CVSS	6.4 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS	2.53% — more likely to be exploited than 84% of all CVEs
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2006-06-05
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (1)

Vendor	Product
php-nuke	ev

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	PHP-Nuke 7.9 Final - 'phpbb_root_path' Remote File Inclusions	2006-06-02

References

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