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CVE-2005-1921

HIGHEPSS 100th pctl
7.5
CVSS v2
NVD

Description

Eval injection vulnerability in PEAR XML_RPC 1.3.0 and earlier (aka XML-RPC or xmlrpc) and PHPXMLRPC (aka XML-RPC For PHP or php-xmlrpc) 1.1 and earlier, as used in products such as (1) WordPress, (2) Serendipity, (3) Drupal, (4) egroupware, (5) MailWatch, (6) TikiWiki, (7) phpWebSite, (8) Ampache, and others, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via an XML file, which is not properly sanitized before being used in an eval statement.

How to fix

Remediation Available
drupalNVD
Affected:>= 4.6.0, < 4.6.2Fixed in:4.6.2CVE-2005-1921derived from NVD
tikiwiki cms\/groupwareNVD
Affected:< 1.8.5Fixed in:1.8.5CVE-2005-1921derived from NVD

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CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

79.07%probability of exploitation in 30 days
100thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.

References

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