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CVE-2005-3844

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-3844 describes a critical SQL injection vulnerability in phpWordPress PHP News and Article Manager version 3.0. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands by manipulating the 'poll', 'category', and 'ctg' parameters within index.php and archive actions. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication or complex attack vectors, and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:phpwordpress:php_news_and_article_manager:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-26608 · Nov 28, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0123 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

forum.word-press.net / index.php
pridels0.blogspot.com / 2005/11/phpwordpress-30-sql-inj.html
secunia.com / advisories/17733
Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 21110
securityfocus.com / bid/15582
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/2594