$ cve CVE-2006-5234 JSON

CVE-2006-5234 EXPLOIT

7.5

HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 2.8% (pctl 86)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in phpWebSite 0.10.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the PHPWS_SOURCE_DIR parameter in (1) init.php, (2) users.php, (3) Cookie.php, (4) forms.php, (5) Groups.php, (6) ModSetting.php, (7) Calendar.php, (8) DateTime.php, (9) core.php, (10) ImgLibrary.php, (11) Manager.php, and (12) Template.php, and (13) EZform.php. NOTE: CVE disputes this report, since "PHPWS_SOURCE_DIR" is defined as a constant, not accessed as a variable

Scoring

CVSS	7.5 (HIGH, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS	2.77% — more likely to be exploited than 86% of all CVEs
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2006-10-11
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (1)

Vendor	Product
phpwebsite	phpwebsite

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	phpWebSite 0.10.2 - 'PHPWS_SOURCE_DIR' Multiple Remote File Inclusions	2006-10-09

References

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