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Vulnerability record · CVE-2005-2498 · published 15 August 2005

CVE-2005-2498: Gggeek phpxmlrpc code injection vulnerability

Gggeek · Phpxmlrpc

Eval injection vulnerability in PHPXMLRPC 1.1.1 and earlier (PEAR XML-RPC for PHP), as used in multiple products including (1) Drupal, (2) phpAdsNew, (3) phpPgAds, and (4) phpgroupware, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via certain nested XML tags in a PHP document that should not be nested, which are injected into an eval function call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1921.

7.5 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 5.1% · top 7.9% CWE-94 · Code injection
7.5CVSS 2.0 base score
5.1%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
2Affected product versions listed by NVD
66References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

Eval injection vulnerability in PHPXMLRPC 1.1.1 and earlier (PEAR XML-RPC for PHP), as used in multiple products including (1) Drupal, (2) phpAdsNew, (3) phpPgAds, and (4) phpgroupware, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via certain nested XML tags in a PHP document that should not be nested, which are injected into an eval function call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-1921.

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

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112412415822890&w=2 Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112431497300344&w=2 Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112605112027335&w=2 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/16431 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16432 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16441 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16460 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16465 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16468 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16469 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16491 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16550 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16558 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16563 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16619 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16635 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16693 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16976 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/17053 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/17066 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/17440 Broken Link
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-789 Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-798 Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-840 Mailing List
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-842 Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-28-FLSA_2005_166943__Updated_php_packages_fix_security_issues.html Broken Link
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-19.xml Third Party Advisory
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_152005.67.html Not ApplicablePatchVendor Advisory
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_49_php.html Broken Link
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-748.html Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408125 Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14560 Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9569 Broken Link
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112412415822890&w=2 Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112431497300344&w=2 Third Party Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112605112027335&w=2 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/16431 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16432 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16441 Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/16460 Broken Link

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2005-2498), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.