CVE-2005-2498 describes an eval injection vulnerability in PHPXMLRPC 1.1.1 and earlier, impacting products like Drupal, phpAdsNew, and phpgroupware. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by injecting specially crafted, nested XML tags into an eval function call. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, enabling full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gggeek:phpxmlrpc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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