Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-3048

Title: PhpMyFaq 1.5.1 Directory Traversal and Code Injection

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2005-3048

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Sep 24, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.4 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

8.31%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-3048: Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in PhpMyFaq 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or include arbitrary PHP files via a .. (dot dot) in the LANGCODE parameter, which also allows direct code injection via the User Agent field in a request packet, which can be activated by using LANGCODE to reference the user tracking data file.

Impacted Vendors

phpmyfaq 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112749230124091&w=2 http://rgod.altervista.org/phpmyfuck151.html http://www.osvdb.org/19672 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112749230124091&w=2 http://rgod.altervista.org/phpmyfuck151.html http://www.osvdb.org/19672

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.4

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-3048 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1226

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 24, 2005 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:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.