Vulnerability Report

CVE-2003-1545

Title: nukestyles.com viewpage.php absolute path traversal

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2003-1545

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Dec 31, 2003

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.60%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2003-1545: Absolute path traversal vulnerability in nukestyles.com viewpage.php addon for PHP-Nuke allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a full pathname in the file parameter. NOTE: This was originally reported as an issue in PHP-Nuke 6.5, but this is an independent addon.

Impacted Vendors

phpnuke 1

nukestyles 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316179/30/25340/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316198/30/25340/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316209/30/25340/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316233/30/25340/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316327/30/25340/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316341/30/25310/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316585/30/25310/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7191 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1006377 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316179/30/25340/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316198/30/25340/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316209/30/25340/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316233/30/25340/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316327/30/25340/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316341/30/25310/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316585/30/25310/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7191 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1006377

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2003-1545 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/22422

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 31, 2003 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.